Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remaining teams in Class C stand in the following order...
Impressive and memorable was the tribute paid by His Majesty's devoted subjects. They came in spontaneous crowds to stand, day after day and far into each night, outside the tall iron fence of Buckingham Palace. Most of the time a chill and dreary drizzle fell, alike upon the silent crowd and on the many twinkling limousines which hurried, one after another, up to the palace door. From these descended such personages as Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain, Field Marshall Viscount Allenby, Her Grace the Duchess of Argyle, the Earl and Countess of Athlone,* Right Honorable Cabinet...
Undeniably the situation was awkward. Nearly every British newspaper and review had said, last month, what a shame it was that Mr. Houghton had resigned as Ambassador (TIME, Oct. 8) and sailed for New York, to stand for one of the Senatorial seats from that state as a Republican. When the Republican candidate was elected President of the U. S., casual Britons supposed that Mr. Houghton must have been elected too, and that they had seen the diplomatic last of him. But instead he was defeated, and so he was back in London last week as Ambassador...
...Yale Law School, will enter into debate with E. A. Hausman 3L on a question of compulsory insurance. The subject of this contest of words will be: "Resolved, That compulsory insurance be enacted." Professor Vance will support the proposition and Hausman, a graduate of Princeton, will oppose this stand. Hausman has been called the undefeated intercollegiate debating champion of America...
...Henry Sloane Coffin, president of the Union Theological Seminary of New York City, will be the principal speaker at the conference. An effort is being made to secure John Farewell Moors '83, Harvard College Fellow, to follow Dr. Coffin on the speaker's stand...