Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large cast two members stand out: Nydia Westman, as a flip but honest showgirl, and Clyde Dilson, as a suave but unpleasant Chicago gunman. There is also a knife-thrower who knows his business and a bucking broncho that isn't afraid of a first-night audience...
...recently formed Petroleum Corp., $100,000,000 oil investment trust (TIME, Feb. 4). Able Elisha Walker, who will become president of Bancamerica and chairman of the executive committee of Bank of America, will doubtless be the active leader of the merged properties. But back of him will stand Mr. Giannini, now approaching his 60th year, and the billion dollar resources of Transamerica Corp., holding company for all Giannini enterprises...
...present time, there does not seem to be any method for determining from preliminary test whether a cable will stand up in service or not. In other words, the cable is the weakest link in the modern power system. Moreover, cables have not been designed to operate on voltages commensurate with those employed for overhead lines...
Wall Street used, of course, to be the centre of New York City and near it stand the oldest landmarks. St. Paul's Chapel (Manhattan's oldest) where George Washington and New York's first Governor, George Clinton, worshipped, is five blocks from Wall Street. St. Peter's, Manhattan's oldest Catholic church, rises in the shadow of the Woolworth Building. In 1766, in John Street, the first U. S. Methodist-Episcopal society opened its first chapel. Daily services are still held in John Street...
Behind the bars of Tiajuana stand the remnants of a disappearing race-the U.S. bartender. Many a man among them will tell heart-breaking tales of better days when he served drinks at the Waldorf in Manhattan, at Boston's Parker House or at Coffee Dan's in San Francisco. Their skill confirms their stories and strong men weep gently into their old-fashioned whiskey cocktails to think such souls are passing...