Word: stand
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...depend on slave labor. The demands of slave labor were two: economic and political. Economically its productions must be free from criticism, and politically it must be protected against social criticism and humanitarian reform. To enforce these demands the representatives of the plantation interest had to do more than stand on the defensive; they had to take the lead of the nation. In this way the whole tendency of American thought and life was for a long time withstood...
...than this. It is the society not merely of priests and prelates but also of men and women of every rank who in their own work in in the world are trying to advance Christ's kingdom. Men must not secularize common work. Literature, science, commerce, business, those all stand under the pale of religion, and men of business and of the world, though they be of varying creeds, are parts of Chrait's one Catholic Church if they are trying to better society and influence...
...total number of seats on the Yale Field is 20,456, of which Harvard has received 10,300. The stands have been divided equally, each college taking one side and one end. The seating capacity of the side stand equals 10 sections of 402 seats each so that Harvard secures 4020 seats between the two goal lines. This leaves 6280 seats behind the goal posts, on the ends, and on the corners. Owing to the great demand for seats the players and coaches have been obliged to take some of their seats in these back sections...
...Carroll D. Wright delivered last night his last lecture in the series on "Wage Statistics," his special subject being "Real Wages in the Past Half Century." In Friday's talk the speaker had considered the statistics of real wages from the stand point of prices; in last evening's address he approached the subject from the point of "cost of living" and of the purchasing power of money...
Although this may seem a trivial point to discuss at such length, when one considers the importance of the time to play in football games, and the ease with which it could be recorded on the scoring-board, he cannot fall to see some ground for the stand here taken...