Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...watch when the jury has retired, and says, 'Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at 5, gentlemen.' 'So do I,' says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three, and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch: 'Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen? I rather think, so far as I am concerned, gentlemen, -I say, I rather think -but don't let that influence you-I rather think the plaintiff...
Last week the London Evening Stand ard commented on the French reduction of visa fees : "France has so many advantages over Britain for the attraction of Americans that we can ill afford to put any obstacles in the way of the potential visitor. There is a tendency on this side of the Channel to imagine that all American travelers are so rich that a few extra dollars in the way of fees will not weigh one way or another. That is quite wrong...
From a purely selfish standpoint we stand to gain more than enough to offset a slight loss in revenue by a general abolition of this tax. It is incredible that the United States should enforce against Europeans a visa charge when they are rapidly doing away with their charge on its. An excellent opportunity is now given us to prove that America's vaunted altruistic leadership is not ill founded. Let us not allow it to pass...
...fame derives from the quasi-official Hall of Fame which was founded within its precincts and entrusted to its care in 1900 by Mrs. Finley J. Shepard at the suggestion of the late Henry Mitchell MacCracken, Chancellor (1891-1911) of N. Y. U. There, august in bronze and marble, stand the busts of 49 famed Americans, including Robert Fulton, Horace Mann, Maria Mitchell, Edgar Allen Poe, Ulysses Simpson Grant, George Washington, Mark Hopkins, Gilbert Charles Stuart. There, too, shall stand John Quincy Adams, George Bancroft James Fenimore Cooper, Patrick Henry, James Russell Lowell, John Lothrop Motley, Joseph Story, Elias Howe...
...Professor of Philosophy Frederick E. Woltman has also been expelled. A visiting celebrity lectured, not in Pittsburgh's Alumni Hall, as he had been invited to do, but in a vacant lot. Thus stood matters last week at the University of Pittsburgh and thus they seemed likely to stand...