Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stubbornly Correspondent Horan refused to tell. A Hearst man to the core, he once tutored the Hearst children, was rewarded by elevation to Correspondenthood. Finally the examining Agents became so vexed that they offered Prisoner Horan his choice between being made to stand trial for stealing important documents (penalty if convicted five years at hard labor) or, alternatively, he could go free by signing a paper stated to contain admissions made by him while on the grill...
Lumps and chunks of it piled up at the intersection of two streets, in which stand the U. S. Consulate, the Oldsmobile Prague Branch and the Y.M.C.A...
...Midshipmen and Cadets and their older brothers, the officers of the Navy and the Army. When the horns of the goat tangle with the elongated ears of the mule upon the athletic field a partisan feeling that claims every spectator be he uniformed or casual, blazes from the stands. To the fevered eye of the midshipman no more damnable sight appears upon the horizon than the solid bank of frenzied, gesticulating, grey-coated maniacs that occupies the opposite stand. For an hour or two he hurls epithets at its maddening solidity across the field where on his shipmates struggle...
Harvard and West Point stand at the extremities of the bracket of education. But though these be as other East and West, parodox rules today, not Kipling. And implicit within them is that American homogeneity that makes this rendezvous appeal to the pulses of each. The permanence of the effect of Harvard on West Point and West Point on Harvard is no key to the value of this meeting. No such heightening is needed for the healthy contrasting colors that make this a welcome Saturday at Harvard...
...arrives. And he is less than the dust of the area. He is fed, clothed, inspected as to teeth and hoofs exactly as a horse would be. He must stand at attention for all officers. Upper classmen are all Mr. So-and-so to him. He cannot speak to them without being spoken to, he pulls his chin back and elevates his chest by orders, and gradually it dawns on him that he is not appreciated. That the hero of Podunk is completely obscured at West Point! And in him, perhaps, is born the realization that he is important only...