Word: standings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word "inland" in reference to Beaumont, Tex., was a slip-up on my part, so far as I know. It did not belong in the paragraph. I stand convicted of this offense, thus, by one word, robbing the book of all truth...
Blue. The first color band would include such U. S. citizens as stand pat for a stratified society topped by an aristocracy either of money or brains. They find the present form if not the present condition of government in the U. S. satisfactory on the whole. They think little of radical reformers. For various reasons, all would call Socialism "rot." Besides Banker Morgan, Blues include such assorted types as Associate Justice Pierce Butler of the U. S. Supreme Court, Chairman William Morgan Butler of the G. O. P., William Wrigley Jr., William Randolph Hearst, James J. Tunney, Will Durant...
...view that by "adroit denials" the British nurse might have escaped death at the hands of the Germans. It was a pretty thing to strike an "I-would-not-tell-a-lie" attitude and die for it, these Belgians remarked, and went on to say that her "noble stand for principle" was less appreciated by the Belgian parents of children who were afterward the victims of her "remarkable honesty," and that many of her accomplices would have escaped had she been willing to tell...
Baker based his assumption on the playing of the Crimson tackles and ends, whom he stated "would not stand a chance before the sweeping end plays of the Notre Dame or Minnesota teams...
Laylin pointed out that the ability to stand up and answer questions, and to make an intelligent use of the library, were the main benefits to be derived from Law Club work. The cases to be argued are drawn up by the judges of the first courts, subject to the approval of the Board of Student Advisors. The judges are men in the third year of the Law School...