Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newark Preparatory School is sending an exceptionally strong group of runners including a crack mile relay team which under favorable conditions should stand an excellent chance of breaking the existing scholastic mark in that event...
...Kensington Gardens, London is full of statuary. Possibly no statues in the whole murky city are better known or more consistently photographed than the two living statues that guard Britain's War Office-the living mounted sentries of the Horse Guards. Splendid, remote and eternal, they stand in their little sentry boxes: two coal-black horses, currycombed to satin smoothness; two six-foot troopers in jackboots, silver breastplates, plumed helmets. Not even when irreverent trippers tempt the chargers with raw carrots, or drop peanut shells into the troopers' boot tops, do they move...
...Atlanta, one Walter Dorsey, Negro chicken thief, explained his technique to the judge: "I just sprays 'em with chloroform. Then stand back and wait. In about five minutes they flop off the roost and are ready for my sack...
...defense placed Mrs. Dennett on the stand. She was allowed to answer three or four minor questions, concerning the fact that she had written the pamphlet 15 years ago for her two sons, then 13 and 9. The attorneys summed up and the prosecutor said: "It may be true that to the pure all things are pure, and that we have to go down to the gutter for our information, but this woman is trying to drag us down into the sewer...
Oldest, most conservative of U. S. newsgathering organizations, the Associated Press does not stand still. Kent Cooper, general manager, reported last week to the annual A. P. meeting* in Manhattan, new A. P. departures during the past year...