Word: stood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the music ended, after less than an hour, a woman stood in the congregation and said: "Thank you for bringing over your choir to us, Reverend Underwood. It was a real Christmas treat...
Afterward, Farmer Abrell and his daughters Nancy Ruth and Rachel walked home up the road behind the church. In the light of the full moon, overflowing corncribs stood like sentinels. Rachel slipped her hand into her father's arm. After a few minutes he said, half to himself: "I reckon we've got things to be thankful...
...circling over Indio, Calif. since Nov. 20, Endurance Flyers Dick Riedel and Bill Barris discovered that their Aeronca plane's carburetor was icing, were forced to land after spending 568 hours and 47 minutes aloft. The endurance record (set by two Long Beach, Calif. flyers in 1939) still stood at 726 hours...
...largest lecture room at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago was jammed one day last week. Every one of the 325 seats was taken; 150 people stood in the aisles. Word had gone around that Dr. Otto Warburg, 65, respectfully called "the Old Man," was going to make his first public report since he arrived from Germany last June...
...year's big kill was a spectacular drop in the price of fox furs. Pelts that brought as much as $32 apiece before the war were selling this fall for as little as $12. Nieman, who figures it costs him about $30 to raise a fox to maturity, stood to lose $18 on each pelt he sold this year...