Word: standings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kingsley B. Leeds [TiME, Aug. 1] has discovered a higher type of manliness and deserves respect for his stand against the barbarism...
...refused to accept the Anglo-Irish treaty- and is led by Eamon de Valera. It is the principal Republican group in the Free State. Until a fortnight ago it steadfastly refused to enter the Dail unless the oath of allegiance to King George were removed. It recanted from this stand, however, and took the oath as "a matter of form (TIME...
...mass meeting on the Boston Common. Smartly dressed, neatly barbered, looking more like a distinguished professor emeritus than a boisterous radical nephew, James shouted: "Down with the police!*, assaulted a bluecoat, was promptly arrested. Refusing to plead the charges against him he told the court that he would not stand up "before murderers whether they are judges, police officers or governors." He was fined $75. After being graduated from Harvard in 1896 Mr. James practiced law in Seattle, grew discontented, went to Paris to edit the Liberator, radical journal. He has long been a Sacco & Vanzetti sympathizer, attempted last April...
...ordinary small compressor unit. Seventy pounds pressure of air, delivered to the hammer, is all that is used at Massachusetts General Hospital where Surgeon-Inventor Pitkin has been at work. In experiments more than 70 pounds pressure shattered the bones of cadavers, although bones of living patients can stand greater battering without splitting untowardly. The chief problem in perfecting the device was to get the power air sterile enough for the operating room. That Surgeon-Inventor Pitkin accomplished by passing the air through an alcohol filter...
...details in which science has not supplanted skill. Workmen still play catch with incandescent rivets, which, when heated, are tossed through the air 30, 40, 50 feet to where a nonchalant figure, swaying on a matchstick girder, swings a pail to catch them. Loiterers many floors below stand enchanted, watching the bits of glowing metal leap obligingly like miraculously agile trout into a waiting pan. Loiterers reflect that while science sometimes fails when heavy steel bars drop down, skill is infallible, for no rivet ever falls...