Word: stood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What both ladies emphasized besides wool's trade value was that the Queen's country stood at the forefront of, and Mrs. Roosevelt's country stood at the brink of joining, a mobilization of what Mrs. Roosevelt's indomitable uncle, Roosevelt I, would have called the forces of Righteousness. Week by week, day by day, other forces were operating in a way which might prevent the two ladies meeting in June and divert both their countries' wool production away from ladies' dresses and into socks, sweaters, breeches, belly-bands for soldiers...
...tiny Kingdom of Albania. Boom followed boom until 101 had shaken the sleeping town. A son and heir had just been born to King Zog I and his Hungarian-American consort, Queen Geraldine. The man-child was named Skander after the great Albanian patriot who in the 15th Century stood off the Turks during some 30 years of hard fighting...
...nine-ounce steel ball was dropped on a pane of the same glass from a height of 28 feet. The glass bulged and cracked but did not break. A young woman stood behind another pane while Chief Bender, famed oldtime pitcher, wound up and let fly a baseball at it. The glass stopped the ball...
Honest, middle-aged Tom E. Braniff was dejected as he stood before a luncheon gathering of aviation's bigwigs one day last week at Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania. Subdued and solemn, he accepted for Braniff Airways, Inc. the National Safety Council's 1938 award for middle-sized U. S. airlines. For seven years the line had operated without a passenger fatality. But well did sad Tom Braniff and all at the luncheon know that a few days before the award's presentation (but some weeks after it had been voted) one of his Chicago-Dallas airliners...
...have stood for a good deal of lether lunged laughter in our bailiwic," stoutly concluded the edited editorial, "but we've got an intern in the house and we can take...