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Word: standings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down on his "costly"* seat in the Senate despite the "irregularities, illegalities and improprieties by which it was secured," Washington Correspondent Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun, arch and acrimonious Democrat, last week wrote: "Mr. Vare is the smelly but powerful boss of the Philadelphia machine. ... As things stand, however, he has an excellent chance of being thrown out on his large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Personages | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...since the last Imperial Conference, which created George V King of the Union of South Africa, General Hertzog has held that the legitimate aspirations of the country and a free and independent unit in the Commonwealth had been met. But he was bitterly attacked by both sides in his stand on the flag issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: South African Flag | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...right guard left his place, and came into the backfield, while the right halfback jumped into the vacant place in the line. The quarterback passed to the guard, who plunged into the line. The quarterback, left halfback, fullback, and ends got behind him and pushed. No line could stand against this sharp-pointed wedge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cridiron Chosts | 11/5/1927 | See Source »

...wide campuses of America. This was something that long needed saying, if only to give the lie to the "Constant Reader" whose form letter appears about twice a week in the local press, retelling the pathetic tale of the old lady with the black shawl who had to stand up in the subway all the way to Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SON ALSO RISES | 11/5/1927 | See Source »

...problem of selecting men worthy of entrance into college the Amherst president has taken a well-defined stand. Harvard determined the members of the class of 1931 in the recognition that the cumulative weight of scholastic attainment was not the only one to be placed in the scales of decision. This pioneer action has proven a practical support of the belief of President Pease that "the guardians of a privately endowed college will, I believe, be more faithful to their trust and better conservators of the money given by its donors if they provide for the merciful exclusion, or even...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO CORROBORATIONS | 11/5/1927 | See Source »

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