Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jersey City police and firemen held their annual parade and on the curb opposite Mayor Hague's reviewing stand stood voiceless Mr. Burkitt, holding up, in mute salute, a case of eggs...
...Architect Warren ended his declaration with a statement mild as milk. He declared that the official translation of the inscription is "DESTROYED BY TEUTONIC FOLLY; RESTORED BY AN AMERICAN GIFT." He added that Monsignor Ladeuze, Rector of the University of Louvain has finally ruled that the epithet "furore" shall stand. When curious persons turned to Latin dictionaries, last week, to see if "juror" could be stretched to mean "folly." they found as authorized synonyms "delusion," "frenzy," "madness," "rage" and "fury." Nobody's Latin except Architect Warren's could make "furor" mean "folly," as distinct from insanity...
...official manifesto General Fukuda declared: "The Chinese show an open stand of belligerency. Therefore, to punish the guilty and uphold the dignity of the Japanese Empire I am obliged to take such drastic measures as I deem necessary...
...Jones '28, versatile CRIMSON tosser, would be unable to play are believed to have caused the rash action of the Lampoon rooters. Word got around yesterday, however, that the CRIMSON is firmly resolved to maintain the integrity of its football traditions and that in consequence the score would stand s the sinking sun is being sunk over Soldiers Field this afternoon. CRIMSON 23, Lampoon 2. The confusion that this news produced in financial districts late yesterday afternoon in indescribable...
...science should be to obtain a hearing for such dogmatising, yet it is unavoidable. While science was unremunerative and even hazardous, few but the truly scientific minds were attracted to its pursuit. Working patiently and slowly, and confining their theorizing to the field of science proper, where theories must stand up to every devisable proof, these great scientists discovered many fundamental laws of physics and chemistry, from which flowed the immense mechanical progress of our own times. Quite incidentally to their pursuit of truth, they enriched the world materially to an immense extent; and even more incidentally, they made...