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There was no place for standing on one's head.

Nuova seemed to know that she should begin working as a nurse, and to know how to do the work, for as soon as she started she did just about as well as any of the nurses, but floor-cleaning, and standing on one's head and fanning one's wings like mad, were not things she knew about yet.

Standing on One's Head.—If we make truth stand on its head, we generally fail to notice that our own head, too, is not in its right position.

The sensible way to contemplate the state of affairs in the American League last week was in what yoga enthusiasts call the Sirsasana position�standing on one's head.

This is the logical order, because one goes to the street and then finds the number, but it gives to the American reader a curious sensation of mentally standing on one's head.