Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Local partisans will not be able to see the Crimson in action in the Stadium next year until October 8, 1949, when the team returns from New York City for a six-game home-stand, opening against Cornell...
...which Mr. Conant envisions, however, does not seem the best answer. Evening drill for ten years would put serious restrictions on the trainee's mobility; his work, his vacations, whether or not he travels would all depend on his local unit. The value of weekly training from a military stand-point might well be compared to Boy Scouting; it would be enormously expensive and highly complicated to set up; and, as a ten-year indoctrination program, it is wide open to the attacks of those who fear militarism in the United States. Although the Draft Law of 1948 is unsatisfactory...
...main attacks has been on the subject of price controls, which Herter voted to abandon in 1946. Another, of course, flays the Republican's support of the Taft-Hartley Act. Still a third criticises his "reactionary" stand in regard to recent Social Security legislation. (Herter did not recommend extending benefits to 700,000 newspaper venders.) O'Brien also protests his support of the Mundt-Nixon bill, the Reed-Bulwinkle bill exempting railroads from anti-trust suits, the Case anti-strike bill, and similar "anti-labor" bills...
Countered the 107 petitioners: "Criticism of religion can certainly take forms which are unsuitable to schools . . . But the doctrine that the criticism of religion must be outlawed as such . . . has no justification ... If the suppression of the Nation ... is allowed to stand . . . the consequences to the schools, to the press, and to the vitality of American freedom may well be very serious indeed. Newspapers and periodicals will be obliged to omit news and comment which any group in any denomination, Catholic or other, regards as objectionable or run the risk of being suppressed in the public schools...
Thousands of embattled undergraduates halted the fracas to stand and watch as two youths raced into the wooden stands and snatched a blanket from over a couple who were engaged in "amorous activities." It was probably the best-witnessed indiscretion since the Harvard off-side penalty that called back Cannon's touchdown...