Word: stood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ought to be taught, is one which is coming into other areas, as the personnel problem has. While the rest of General Education has been received with general approval over the last decade, Nat Sci has not. One of its founders admitted last spring that the program as it stood was a failure...
...bronze vases were found under a melon patch not far from the highway. Hanfmann bought the land and excavations soon disclosed a luxurious room, full of bronzes of early Christian and Roman origins. The floor of a neighboring room glistened with elegant marble work. A fine statue of Bacchus stood in the corner of one room along with objects of a Christian nature and on the floor incised with Christian symbols. The mystery of the coexistence of the statute of the pagan god and the Christian implements, among them a unique liturgical embers shovel decorated with a cross...
...Bruins back 32 yards in three plays, and Brown had to punt. Armstrong ran the ball back to the home team's 35-yard line and set up another Yardling touchdown. Three plays later, Fred Taylor scored on a three-yard drive. After Barth failed to convert, the score stood...
Falling Pillars. In all its flamboyant history, Tangier (pop. 180,000) had never been "just one more city," no matter what the nationality of its masters. It was here that Atlas stood, and Hercules formed his great pillars. Trade flourished under Phoenician, Carthaginian, Roman, Visigoth and Byzantine alike. The city was "the brightest jewel" in the crown of England's Charles II. It was coveted by the Portuguese, ruled by the Moors, shelled by the French, invaded by the Spanish-and fought over by just about everyone. When it was finally internationalized in 1923, it was the Mediterranean haven...
Last week, totting up early-bird applications to cover President Eisenhower's planned visit to Russia next spring, Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty warned the U.S. press that it stood in danger of defeating its own purpose. Some 500 newsmen, he said, including 16 from the Associated Press, 16 from the major television networks, and 150 from foreign reporters based in the U.S., have already bid for space aboard the press plane -which can accommodate 107. Also among the applicants were several correspondents' and publishers' wives, billed as "feature writers...