Word: standings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intentions. Roberts' rules were not enough to resist the tide of debate. Two chairmen substituted for each other as arbitrary Noah's Arks, and yet the debate reached a point where at one moment a resolution was voted out, in and out and in again, and then had to stand for redefinition. while time limits stretched and snapped like rubber bands...
...Pittsburgh, Rev. Thomas Francis Coakley of swank, well-publicized Sacred Heart Church (which acquired an electrically-heated baptismal font last year) issued a pamphlet, Church Manners. Price: 10?. The pamphlet tells when to sit, stand, kneel, genuflect (drop briefly on the right knee) during services. Some other observations...
...windows shone on a flower-banked altar. A yellowish glow lit a dozen show-girl Madonnas, each in a vast brocaded mantle, each in prayerful attitude before a golden sunburst resembling a sacred monstrance. Bearing candles, a procession of choristers in blue-&-white robes of ecclesiastical cut took their stand along the walls, and burst into song. One of the Madonnas, picked out by a spotlight, sang a contralto solo. Then the beautifully trained Rockettes-coiffed like nuns, wearing satiny white habits, carrying bunches of lilies-deployed across the cathedral-like set, lined up finally in the form...
...could fit the contour exactly, these bases always had to be hand-polished. The "general-purpose bottom" of Oliver's new Raydex has a simple cylindrical curve which can be polished by machine, making production some 46 times faster and correspondingly cheaper. The conventional plowshare costs $4.25, will stand three resharpenings (about 75? apiece). Four Raydex points cost only $3.40, can be thrown away like razor blades and still save the farmer money as well as the trouble of finding a smithy in these horseless days...
...policy of no favoritism to any country engaged in war, the minority wanted the Congress to pass resolutions for prohibiting the sale of goods of any kind to belligerent nations; for forbidding American ships to travel to belligerents; and for stating that the U. S. would take no stand on collective security against forcible aggression unless it also advocated some technique for "peaceful change...