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Word: standings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hated to see a man stand in open court and get the sudden shock of a sentence without advance preparation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Beds & Bunks | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

Backed outwardly by 500 participants in Harvard's first rally in 13 years and inwardly by every student who has seen them fight their hearts out against four strong opponents, the Varsity football team will stand at the crossroads of the 1938 season this afternoon at 2 o'clock. The team faces an up-and-down Princeton eleven in its first season under Tad Wieman, an eleven who's outstanding achievements are a 13-0 victory over Pennsuylvania and a last-minute 13-13 tie with Navy last Saturday...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: THE LINEUPS | 10/29/1938 | See Source »

Vasili Chapayev was a carpenter when the Bolsheviks rose up in 1917. When the White General Kolchak was making his last stand in 1919, Chapayev was the foremost guerilla chieftain in all the Russias. His services were obtained by the Red army and the commisar Furmanov sent to accompany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 10/27/1938 | See Source »

...swirling, tumultuous drama of court life and court intrigue. Such characters as Polonius, Fortinbras, the King take on added size. Denmark's dark, uneasy political fortunes constantly impinge upon the action. Some of the problems which have haunted generations of scholars, but scarcely occurred to casual playgoers, suddenly stand out: why, for example, the murdered King's brother and not his son should succeed him on the throne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 24, 1938 | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...been held down so much that on October 1 they were at a 15-year low of 280,852,000 bbls. But refiners, who did not see Depression II coming, have been feeling the pinch of reduced industrial demand and curtailed public consumption; their stocks of refined products now stand at phenomenal highs-fuel oil at 151,759,000 bbls. (116,164,000 year ago), gasoline at 68,602,000 bbls. (65,466,000 year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Crude Cuts | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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