Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Murphy announced that his mail favored the stand he had taken last Saturday by a ratio of 11 to 1. Though he declined to predict the Legislature's reaction to the sales tax, he quoted an unnamed Democratic Legislator as saying, "I think it is dead...
Princeton is ranked high in the nation defensively as well, and it will take a sharpshooting varsity to stand a chance. Coach Floyd Wilson said yesterday that to down the visitors the Crimson will have to have a good night from the floor while stopping the Princeton offense before the Tigers get off many good shots...
...controls metamorphosis of insects. When applied to caterpillars of this hormone prevents their becoming butterflies. "Unfortunate publicity," according to Dr. Williams, has apparently deluded hundreds of the nation's oldsters into taking the chemical for what the New York Times calls "a biological Joshua commanding the biological sun to stand still...
Unlike Boris Pasternak's novel, Glazanov's work does not stand up to that of the West. He has had neither the benefit of training nor of example. In all probability, if he is martyred, few people will remember. And Soviet realists will continue to produce panoramas of exhuberant peasants, peasants whose pearl-like teeth bear faint resemblance to the steel variety in the mouth of Khrushchev himself...
...Stand. Oil of Calif...