Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stand on either side of the room rent issue came out of the Council investigation which brought its report to Provost Buck and Vice-President Reynolds this week...
...speaker made our stand on Communism and Wallace perfectly clear; unfortunately few stayed to listen. We wish to correct any unfavorable impression which may have been created. The purpose of this letter, then, is completely to dissociate our organization from the Wallace movement and to express our utter distaste for Communist principles. Gustav Papauck 1G, National Chairman, S.L.L.D...
What does the University stand to lose by its economy, aside from the field of Geography itself? Geography is not, as some geologists believe, a grade school subject. It is a field for research experts, and the Regional Studies Program started last year depends as much on those experts in Geography as in History, Economics, or Government. The Program has been fortunate, as has the Department itself, in having the services of Mr. Ackerman, one of the country's leading experts on the human geography of the Far East. He was granted a leave of absence to head the survey...
...villages and regions, then to the outside world and to the end of time. . . . There will be angels in Heaven for all eternity because of this moment. . . . For five centuries men have tried to make the world fit for heroes. The result is that angry individualism and angry collectivism stand growling at each other. ... A generation of dwarfs is looking to the atom bomb and V-bombs that may destroy all humanity...
...friends: cosmopolites who are individualistic enough but possessing in common overriding sensitivity. It is such sensitivity which completely separates them and their war rebound from "average" veterans. Despite what some have said about its outdoing of Fitzgerald and its spokesmanship for a new Lost Generation the work must rather stand or fall as a specialized sort of chronicle...