Word: stood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Huge crowds stood in Berlin streets, in Hamburg beer gardens, in Magdeburg restaurants listening to a speech over the radio. It was artful-alternating historical review with hysterical threat. The speaker's voice was deep, gruff, staccato as that of a Prussian drillmaster...
...Like ghosts remembering ghosts," he and an oldtime officer talked. The officer said: "Do you know, I can hardly bring myself to believe that it may happen all over again. Yesterday I went to one of our war cemeteries, and when I stood there I felt a kind of rage and a kind of anguish. The damned folly of life has caught us again and the sons of those who died are going to be the victims of another evil spell. Can it be possible or isn't it just a nightmare from which we shall all wake...
...First was the newly-merged Farm Journal & Farmer's Wife with 2,475,000.) Selling to subscribers at 25? a year, Country Home had long struggled to break even. But in advertising revenues it was way behind: with "5,000 in the first nine months of 1939, it stood sixth on a list that Country Gentleman led with...
...they shook the foundations of civil authority or usurped its rights." This the Pope denied. But he forthrightly marked off the Church's stand when he said: "So many noble minds separated from us ... are recognizing in the Catholic Church principles of belief and life that have stood the test of two thousand years . . . [the Church] is generous in its material condescension toward all, but firm when, even at the costs of torments of martyrdom, it has to say: 'Non licet! It is not allowed...
...that his great bravery becomes somewhat of a second nature. The person who stands out now against the call of bearing war drums for American involvement in this European war also deserves great credit for bravery. Just in the past year or so has America for given those who stood against entry into the last war. Here and there a professor who was flared as "yellow" or a "traitor" between 1916-1918 is now being rehired. In the last year or so a great university has sent a widow the check for the last salary of a professor fired because...