Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notices appended to the time-table was that "Passengers were not allowed to stand on the platform or put their heads out of the window below Debauch Slough--the corporation not wishing to alarm persons who were not patrons of the road...
...other consideration be of some weight? If placed in the midst of, and more or less obscured by other buildings which crowd around, it cannot have the inspiring effect nor convey the significance which is desirable. Whereas on the river driveway it might stand forth somewhat like the famous Stump of old Boston and it would impress on all, on students as well as the public, that Harvard cares and stands for spiritual values. Robert Treat Paine...
...time, and the costumes, rented for the occasion in New York, have been retained in Cambridge. If the play is presented again, all the former participants have signified their willingness to take part in it. The patronesses, moreover, many of whom were erroneously reported as having withdrawn, stand behind "Fiesta" as before...
...successfully culminate in more honey, it may not be of its pristine saccharinity, coming from discontented bees, and its lowered market value may be punishment enough to the owner. But if the bees grow class-conscious and revolt, making their presence felt as only bees can, let the apiarist stand not upon the order of his going. Retribution is swift and just, especially swift, when it is from...
Cambridge, a city of more than 120,000 population, can actually boast of its own daily newspaper, and there by explode the proverbial joke regarding its own infancy. For this purpose the fourteen consecutive issues of the Cambridge Evening Journal have provided the necessary dynamite and now stand on approval...