Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neon-tube burst into a vivid red glow, waves started to move from one end of the tube to the other, then to stand still, then to reverse their motion, and then to move towards both ends of the tube, seemingly being formed at the middle. A representative of the CRIMSON was witnessing a demonstration of research apparatus of Harris Fahnestock 1G at the Cruft Laboratory of the Engineering School...
...crisis in Germany now would be very damaging to the prosperity not of Germany alone, but to the world. Beside the political eventualities, which are not small, of a socialist or nationalist rising, there are economic repurcussions on a grand scale. American holders of German securities might have to stand large losses, or unnecessary loss of confidence on their part might produce liquidation which would be disastrous to German borrowing. Nations which find Germany a good market for their goods, and secure from Germany many necessary goods in return, would be injured. The problems of Allied debt payment would...
...hand upon the stand that made the lawyers snicker...
...Home Office at Tokyo, "that great injustice would be done to nations requiring Japanese laborers if permits to emigrate were issued to palefaced [Japanese] town residents incapable of handling anything heavier than pens and pencils. . . . The authorities are very strict in granting permits only to those who can stand the comparatively hard labor involved by work on farms." Clearly this astute policy keeps pesky little "pale faces" off Brazilian streets where they might cause resentment, insures a pleasant welcome and gainful employment to big, brown, burly Japs willing to work and multiply in rustic obscurity...
...itself on the pit floor. When steel-cooks know their business, the brew from the kettle furnace pours not into the pit, but into a many-tonned ladle. Filled to its brim and slobbering over, the ladle is moved along over a train of flatcars in which ingot-molds stand up some seven feet from the car-floors. From mold to mold the ladle hastens, filling each with its white-hot content. When the ladle has gone the length of the train, the row of ingot-molds glow in the darkness like monuments of hardened fire. Thus steel...