Word: stood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some time ago you published an article on the economic condition of many of the Southern tenant farmers, especially the Negroes. You told how one Negro had obtained a judgment against his landlord for unlawful interest charges, and how the latter stood to pay considerable damages [TIME, June 13]. You also pointed out the possible widespread significance of this judgment...
...Deal authorities and against projecting the Government into every conceivable species of business. His statement concerning me is simply a wanton falsehood. I doubt if there is a member of Congress who has had less than I to do with so-called Government grants. . . . Horatius-at-the-Bridge stood and fought; he did not go 3,000 miles across the continent to lie about his adversaries...
...water, continuing the work of extermination. Pilot Woods was carried away by a swift current and reached shore in safety. Radio Operator Joe Loh and a passenger, Chinese Civil Servant C. N. Lou, with a bullet in his neck, also escaped. Two days later, while the British gunboat Cicala stood by, Chinese extricated three bullet-riddled bodies from the transport, sunk in 40 feet of water. Among the missing were President Hsu Sing-loh of the National Commercial Savings Bank and General Manager Hu Pei-kong of the Bank of Communications...
Railroadmen thought the accident might have been due to insufficient water in the boiler. Last week the disabled locomotive stood boarded up at Xenia, Ohio, awaiting inspection by the Interstate Commerce Commission...
...writers and artists who have given substance to Katrina Trask's vision. But whether or not they fitted Katrina's romantic conception was an open question. By contrast with aristocratic Katrina and the elegant capitalistic surroundings she provided, most of the season's 27 guests stood out in striking left-wing contrast: Poet Kenneth Fearing (Angel Arms, Poems), Critic Newton Arvin (Hawthorne), Novelists Joseph Vogel (At Madame Bonnard's), Leonard Ehrlich (God's Angry Man), Henry Roth (Call It Sleep), Daniel Fuchs (Low Company...