Word: stood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ireland. This captain ordered the freighter to heave to (by shots over her bow), and to disembark her men in lifeboats. He then lay to, checked the castaways' compass, offered them a tow toward the nearest land. After scuttling the lifeless Olivegrove with one well-aimed torpedo, he stood by her survivors for nine hours until help neared (U. S. liner Washington). To attract it, he put lights on the lifeboats and fired two red rockets before taking his tactful leave...
...unheard for several hours, had been thought bombed, many listeners to this broadcast smelled a Nazi. Sure enough, later that evening Warsaw's Radio Station 2 came on, warned Poles against broadcasts purporting to come from Station 1, which had been disabled; assured its listeners that Warsaw still stood; sought volunteers for trenching and barricading; switched to Polish music...
...London office of the New York Times one day last week a little bearded man stood glaring at a cablegram. Twenty hours earlier the British liner Athenia, with 300-odd American war refugees aboard, had been torpedoed off the coast of Scotland. In the dead of night, as the news reached London, correspondents, scenting the biggest German "atrocity" story since the sinking of the Lusitania, had descended on cable companies, roused up nodding operators to file their dispatches. It was now late afternoon, and the message in Times Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall's hand (from his home office) read...
Government Bonds in recent years have taken the place of commercial loans as the bread and butter of banks. Day before Hitler jumped Poland, U. S. Treasury 4¼s (1947-52) stood at the fantastic price of 119 20/32, Treasury 2¾s (1956-59) at 106, etc. Since the premiums commanded by these bonds have to be amortized out of interest the actual yield (to maturity) of these two issues...
...Germany last week the liaison between science and the army was perfect: every scientist, of whatever stripe or affiliation, stood ready to obey the commands of his Government...