Word: standings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with indignation, Lobby-Lawyer Shattuck took the witness stand, emphatically declared...
Sixty-one indignant undergraduates published a signed manifesto in the Yale Daily News, crying: ''The withdrawal of Mr. French signifies, as well as an incalculable loss to the university, a demoralizing blow directed against those who stand out for the principles upon which he has based his work ... an irreparable injury to the principle of a 'finer, not a bigger Yale,' which we have been led to respect...
...bell-a convict has escaped! At Oakmere Pool lies the dead body of a man, stripped to his underclothes. . . . Thus this thriller, in the somewhat old-fashioned English manner: plenty of atmosphere and a well-defined trail, with the red herrings a little brightly colored. Two characters stand out with pleasant eccentricity: old Mr. Hubbleby, who spends the daylight hours of his vacation riding to and from London on express trains, sleeping at home every night; Pithecanthropus Smith, who is no believer in Sherlock Holmes. Says he: "Detectives frequently have to ask questions which seem impertinent at first, and prove...
Spade bearded Bishop Cherontie of Constanta beamed with pride, announced that Ileana's candlestick would stand on the Cathedral's high altar, its candles never to be snuffed...
...years just elapsed, however, time for considerable progress towards this goal. It is to be sincerely hoped that every effort has been enlisted in the past, and that increasing courage will be manifested in the future towards the furtherance of a safety programme. Humanity is not prepared to stand for another disaster...