Word: stood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Widening bodies to the fender line had made the cars roomier, but had also made the whole automobile, including doors, more susceptible to traffic damage. Parking-lot operators complained that they could store only two postwar cars where three earlier models had stood...
...Room. Younger clerics on Laval's faculty were all for meeting the need. But older heads stood against them: there was no room for business and industry in the place which Bishop de Laval himself had ordained as "a perpetual school of virtue." Not until 1937 did the opposition yield enough to approve a faculty of science. Not until February, 1947, did Laval have a school of commerce...
Atop the hill, Aleijadinho's church stood in isolated splendor, its 16 soapstone prophets jutting above the buttresses. Here carnival melted away in the solemnity of the shrine. The pilgrims swarmed reverently past six little white buildings housing the sculptor's Stations of the Cross. They fell into two lines. Some shielded lit candles as they waited; most lit their candles as they entered the church...
...Angeles, the Rev. Stewart P. MacLennan, who married Lana Turner and Bob Topping three days after Topping's divorce, was formally reproved by his elders. The rebuke, read aloud to him as he stood with head bowed, accused him of having "brought reproaches upon your Christian profession," and warned him to "be more watchful" in future of "the common evil of the remarriage of divorced persons...
...Lysenko's current theories are unscientific and that opponents had been punished for disagreeing, he would make no decision. "I don't think a political body," he said, "should decide scientific, theories. I want evidence that those who disagreed were punished." He would not decide where he stood until "shown that the decision to outlaw Mendelian genetics has made teaching it illegal...