Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon last week at Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.), a fringe of people stood behind a hemp rope. A soldier passed down the line proffering a roll of cotton batting. The people were advised to stuff bits of the cotton into their ears, stand on their toes, gape their mouths. A moment later there broke forth from eight sinister-nosed 75mm. anti-aircraft guns a maddening, vicious cacaphony that made trouser-legs tremble and skirts sway in waves of force. High in the bright ceiling, some 2,000 ft. above, innocent bits of cotton appeared, no bigger than those...
...burning of the magnificent Renaissance library of the University of Louvain in August 1914 was a classic "German atrocity" barely eclipsed by the shooting of Nurse Edith Cavell. Classic too is the furious quarrel which has raged for more than a year about what inscription shall stand over the new Library of Louvain, built with U. S. cash (TIME, Oct. 17, 1927, et seq.). Even amid the excitement of campaigning to become President of the U. S., Herbert Hoover found time to air his strong view about the inscription. Last week that view was overruled by a Belgian court. Piquant...
...persistent words of those who welcome as inter-collegiate athletic contest as a sound social agent. In the very solidarity of the Army ranks is a situation which makes it impossible for Harvard men to be unaware of the nature of these guests from the Hudson. They stand out clear in the view of their hosts, set aside from the motley crowds which throng the stadium. And this picture of the Corps is sure to create an impression on all those who see it today. A real, vivid impression, not one which will be swallowed up in a thousand others...
...Then may her strong walls ever stand For country, Honor, and the Right...
Determined to repeat its victory of the 1928 season and wipe out the stain of 13 former defeats, the Army football squad arrived in Boston last night. The odds stand at even money and all indications point toward a close struggle in the Stadium tomorrow afternoon...