Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many persons who have hoped that the Phi Beta Kappa Society might stand for a scholarship higher than that attainable by the mere grinding out of course grades, its conduct in the Spring elections has brought a very rude awakening. When there were but two days left until the final announcement of honors by the faculty the Phi Beta Kappa Society met and elected the last twenty-five men from the Class...
...have been to New York and St. Louis and talked with the leaders of the largest financial institutions in the country and know this plan and the institution that will stand behind it, if you wish, will carry out your idea of Life Subscriptions in a way that is far superior to anything yet devised for that purpose...
...road. Airplanes with radio telephones circled over the procession, tried to direct traffic. On the downs squatted gypsies although they were not supposed to be there. For a shilling they sold pieces of paper with the name of the winner written thereon. Bookies with checked vests ran around the stand which towers at the end of the famed horseshoe shaped track Gentlemen with grey toppers peered through binoculars. The Aga Khan who two months ago offered $100,000 for Trigo was, of course, present. King George, who has been sick, and Queen Mary were not there. But Edward of Wales...
...Robert T. Neely, Orville A. Dickinson, opened an orange-juice stand in Manhattan. Each paid in $200. Next year, they opened four more stands, increased the capital stock. But thirsty people did not take kindly to street-corner orangeade. Business lagged. In 1915, Stockholder Dickinson, practically insolvent, transferred his share of stock for a debt cancellation to one Walter L. Titus, through Titus's brother. New-Stockholder Titus, little interested in the money-losing company, "wholly abandoned the enterprise," refused to contribute much-needed additional funds. Soon a new company, Burnee Corp., was formed-consisting of Stockholder Neely...
Many years ago I was in Volterra,--one of the oldest cities in Italy. By the town gate, which is ornamented by ornaments dating from the time of the Volcians, there stand tablets, one above the other, recording the epochs when the town changed hands. The Italians who took the place in 1848 (or 60?) left standing all the monuments even those which the Austrians had set up. I remember saying to myself when I saw this "Seenow these Italians have a wisdom that is greater than ours, they leave the Past, to speak for itself, that is impressive...