Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME'S description of the new Irish Free State currency must stand corrected, in the light of subsequent dispatches, on two points: 1) Subscriber Mellor is correct about the salmon; 2) The "cow"' is a bull...
...Correspondent Wythe Williams of New York's potent Times seemed the most irked at having to stand shivering all day without the gates. He alone reported that the arriving princes "primped" themselves before entering House Doom. And no one else seemed to find in the birthday press handout a passage which quoted Wilhelm II as exclaiming...
Away onto the hot plain sped the Crane motor. Ten miles. At the village of Zubeir some shepherds shouted excitedly that there were bandits about. Twenty miles, thirty, forty. Every now and then Missionary Bilkerd would stand up in the machine and peer about, but he could see no bandits. Fifty miles, sixty, suddenly from behind rocks sprang the bandits, opened fire...
...could be supplied by their installation in any dormitories that Yale may build in the future. The establishment of the House system at Yale in the form of small quadrangles will in this respect come into violent conflict with the present social system, for the Fraternities as they now stand are, if nothing else, eating clubs. In this matter, therefore, there would have to be a definite, although difficult compromise...
...should abandon political ideals-indecent though they were&#!51;out of mere passion for a woman. But Pearl cast herself upon Jack, swore it should never be said he had given up his political career for a woman, announced that they were immediately returning to England to stand for Parliament-Labor...