Word: standing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject. Though some segments of the press itself are not altogether free from anti-Semitic bias, its attitude in general has been a reflection of the belief of many influential Jews that to recognize anti-Semitism is to encourage it. Last week two publications made news by reversing this stand...
Claiming that excessive tutoring results from the improper emphasis which University educational requirements place on examinations, The Progressive refused to fall in line with the stand taken by some other student publications in declining tutoring school advertisements, according to an editorial in its latest issue...
Looking around anxiously, Vag spied his brother at the hot dog stand, and hurried over in time to hear him say, "Gimme a dog with all the trimmins, mister." Vag didn't remember Billy's ever cating a wienie before, but after all, if he wanted to go and get sick right in public, that was his own affair. Vag propelled the kid along through the crowd toward the sideshows. The nearest one was the fat lady...
Rounding out the stern trio, to which Spuhn pays the sincere compliment of calling it "steady," come Hill Bennett and Captain Pitney. Lex Bayard moved back into the No. 5 seat after the Navy contest and is still doing business at the same stand. Charlie Dennison is at home in the first boat, having left his No. 2 of last year to carry on activity at 4. Pat Merle Smith at 3 has been having no trouble in getting back to galley-slave form after a year...
...Stand Up and a Fight," co-starring Robert Taylor and Wallace Beery, is another fairly successful effort to make a man out of the ladies' delight. From a southern plantation where Taylor, as Blake Cantrell, an idly rich orphan, is presiding over a hunt meet, the scene shifts rapidly to the roisterous frontier rivalry of a stage line, run by Wallace Beery, and the nascent Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Forced to sell his plantation, Taylor becomes involved in the general struggle for a livelihood. He sprouts a beard, learns to use a six-shooter to drive nails with, and succeeds...