Word: stood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Into Bordeaux steamed the U. S. Independence Hall with survivors of the City of Mandalay, which was torpedoed as she stood by to rescue survivors of the torpedoed Yorkshire after both ships got separated from their convoy. A U-boat had followed the Yorkshire all day. When the Independence Hall hove to for its double rescue, the U-boat surfaced and its commander, in excellent English, called "Thank you!" He had killed 67 persons in sinking the two ships...
John O'Donnell of the New York Daily News wrote: "The war is a washout-figuratively and actually." Rain had reduced the Cambrai plain to a snipe bog, and "no gun has yet been fired in anger." Wire enclosures were built to hold German prisoners, but stood empty...
...German advance was no bull-headed onslaught. The actual attack elements were not large bodies of men although heavy reserves followed them. When the French counterattacked once or twice to inflict heavier punishment, the German secondaries stood fast, and their retreating firsts laid "tank asparagus" (sharpened steel rails set at an angle in triangular base plates) which halted French juggernauts. Where the French retreat was continuous, the Germans actually lost contact with them since, so polite was this party, Nazi orders were not to cross the French border. By week's end the French had yielded, the Germans retaken...
...Swedish labor, which is Socialist-approached the Royal Palace chanting solemnly, then began to shout "Kallio! Kallio!" Dr. Kallio, often considered dour, suddenly appeared with tears of emotion in his eyes, escorted onto a Palace balcony by the Three Kings and amid deafening cheers the four men linked arms, stood solemnly while the crowd sang the national anthems of their countries and ended with that grand old Lutheran fighting hymn "Vår Gud är oss en väldig borg" (A Mighty Fortress Is Our God). In the enthusiastic crush 17 people fainted...
Lunching with Manhattan's Bond Club, Under Secretary of the Treasury John Hanes stood up and predicted an era of business expansion soundly based on the investment of new capital in utility and industrial plants with or without war. Said he: "We were on the road to economic recovery prior to Poland." This naturally warmed the hearts of his hearers and encouraged them in expansion...