Word: stood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly the thinking stopped and he read. It was about a woodpile, and at the end of the lines that stood out in their clearness and simplicity of philosophy...
Frantically casting off their excess burdens, the two rushed about grasping at imaginary strings. Finally the light was located, and the flood of illumination revealed to the surveyors that they had placed their binoculars on the tummy of a mummy, while the tripods stood beside a half-decomposed skeleton...
...Last week The American Banker'?, index of 17 New York City bank stocks stood at 32.5, one-seventh of its 1929 peak, even below the point where it stood the day before the 1933 bank holiday...
...this month's 15 crime stories, three stood out as best bets...
...Cambridge police stood by calmly, but one of the preservers of the law was heard to exclaim, "We have enough to do, without standing around watching millionaires' sons ride around in snappy cars and walk in the Square in their birthday suits...