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Word: standings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only extension of the Washington agreements from capital ships to cruisers, destroyers and submarines; but revision of these agreements as they now stand and limit capital ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: La Conference Coolidge | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

Richard Burden Haldane, First Viscount Haldane ("Labor Peer"), took exactly the opposite stand, saying ominously: "If you try to strengthen the House of Lords, we part from you. We will fight you as long as we are here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Parliament's Week: Jul. 4, 1927 | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

Ultimatum. Feng Yu-hsiang made known his stand to Chiang Kai-shek by announcing that he had sent an "ultimatum" to the Chinese "Communists" at Hankow, thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Gathering Host | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

This was a flat challenge to Mr. De Valera and Miss MacSwiney. Would they accept, enter the Dail, stand together? Soon famed Eamon de Valera replied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Irish Threats | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

...Chicago, one Burton Parquette, 23, arrested last week, pleaded with policemen: "Let me run. If you shoot me, all well and good. If I get away, that's my good luck. I can't stand being locked up." They jailed him. Later they found him writhing. He had pulverized the lenses of his eyeglasses and swallowed the grit. He was expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 27, 1927 | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

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