Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...couldn't stand for killing innocent people. . . . Agents are frightened when they go out on the job. They are imbued with the idea that they are going into battle. . . . Recently after Washington officials were in Detroit, our chief told us they were sore because so many motor boats broke down and said some of the boys must be 'on the take' [accepting bribes]. I know the boats broke down because the men running them were in experienced...
...Washington. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman, in charge of Prohibition enforcement, asserted that both killings were justified and justifiable. He stoutly promised that the U. S. would stand behind Patrolman White, would transfer his murder case from the Minnesota courts to the U. S. court. He asserted that the newspaper accounts of the Virkula killing were "highly colored, to put it mildly," a statement denounced as "absolutely false" by the Minnesota authorities at International Falls. He rejected the suggestion that the Treasury disarm its border patrolmen, "which in effect would amount to a repeal of the Tariff...
...fine disregard for other people's punches. He was assuring everyone who would listen last week that he would defeat Schmeling with no trouble. Schmeling said he would defeat Uzcudun, intended doing it with his left although he might with his right. Uzcudun's known ability to "take it" (stand punishment), and uncertainty whether Schmeling can "take it" or not, was what made Uzcudun a 7-to-5 favorite in last week's betting...
James Hardy Ropes: Whose masterpiece on the text of the Acts of the Apostles will ever stand as a model of what such a work should...
...gift includes a fund of $5000 to assure the permanent well-being of these treasures, and he has also recently made a number of most important additions, among which is a sketch book in which Crane drew the view of the river front where the Freshman Dormitories now stand, from the opposite shore, not far from the School of Business Administration, which is reproduced here for the first time...