Word: stood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Times estimate which included 1,500 who stood in the rain outside listening to loudspeakers. The antiC. I. O. New York Herald Tribune figured "20,000 to 30,000." Pro-Hague, the New York Sun shot the works...
...other end of the room was a table with many extra seats to accommodate one's hat, cost, and feet. While the Vagabond stood planning his prospective posture, he found that across from him was a Radcliffe girl who looked almost beautiful. He promptly sat down and nonchalantly fingered the pages of his book, noticing at the same taking voluminous notes, that she really was beautiful, and that he initials were "J> P." He pretended to be working by flipping a page over now and then, but soon gave up and said in a send-bored voice, "Going into...
...went up to $41. Last year it stood at $42.50. Last week, on the last day of 1937, the Boston Evening American and the Washington Evening Star announced that they were going to raise their prices from 2? to 3? and eight other U. S. newspapers-from the Atlanta Georgian to the Omaha World-Herald-raised their weekly subscription rates 5?. For by the end of 1938 all newsprint will be costing $50 a ton. That will raise the year's operating costs of U. S. newspapers about...
Having in general stood up for SEC, Gerald Loeb was more hurt than angry last week., Said he: "Neither I nor my firm has any knowledge or information of any manipulative operation in Auburn stock and we are absolutely confident that the investigation will result in complete exoneration...
...makes a valuable document in its own right. When Chiang Kai-shek broke with the Communists in 1927, Mao organized the Soviet in Hunan Province. Despite the internal feuds and contradictory policies of the Comintern, the Hunan Soviet lasted from 1930 to 1934, and with only 40,000 men stood off four attacks by Chiang Kai-shek's armies. For this success, Mao had a succinct reason: The misery of the peasants, whose desperate lot (their taxes were collected as far as 60 years in advance) led them to support the Reds' guerrilla warfare...