Word: stood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room in which Count Csáky stood represented only a small part of the detailed workmanship and great wealth that had been poured into Hungary's impressive Houses of Parliament. Standing on the Rudolph Quay in Pest (i.e., on the left bank of the Danube, the flat half of Budapest), this 19th-Century, Gothic-style building ranks as one of the largest legislative palaces of the world. It cost $8,000,000, covers four-and-one-half acres, has a dome 315 feet high. It was intended, when built, to show Hungary's importance, but after World...
Primer children sat at tiny armchairs in front, first-grade children at small desks in the centre, other pupils at bigger desks along the sides. They stood up to salute the big flag, then began their lessons While primer pupils went to play with dolls in the "play corner" and other pupils busied themselves with books, Miss Campbell announced: "First grade reading. Five tots marched to the front of the room, seated themselves on a long recitation bench. There Miss Campbell gave them a Christmas story to read in an Elson-Gray reader, sent them back to their seats with...
...opinion to bear. An A.M.A.-inspired citizens' committee, investigating management of the hospital, recommended that Dr. Meyer be ousted, hinted that the hospital might be reinstated on the A.M.A.'s list if a new director acceptable to the A.M.A., were chosen. The County Commissioners backed Dr. Meyer, stood...
Above all other men, Senator Sumner of Massachusetts was a scourge and a goad to the South, an exasperation to practical statesmen like Stephen A. Douglas. Handsome, imposing, humorless and incorruptible, Sumner stood in the Senate for years denouncing slaveholders as keepers of a nameless abomination; yet he had nothing whatever to say as to how $4,000,000,000 in slave property could be liquidated. "He seemed to insist," says Sandburg, "that he could be an insolent agitator and a perfect gentleman both at once. His critics held that he was either a skunk or a white swan...
...Catherine the Great's palace was the "mechanical" wonder of the age: laden banquet tables which, on command, rose or sank through the floor. They were manipulated by "a forest of human hands" whose owners stood waist-deep in the habitually flooded basement. Frequently the ropes broke, the tables dropped, the operators were crushed to death...