Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exercise proved the feasibility of limited, small-scale operations over snow-covered terrain, large-scale transpolar military expeditions would be "virtually impossible." Wrote he: "The difficulties of mass airborne operations in subzero weather are so major that they may never be solved." Mars, like a brass monkey, could not stand intense cold...
...position would soon be arithmetically hopeless. At Edinburgh last week, Cripps gave a somber summary: ". . . The whole future of our country really hangs in the balance. We have nothing to spare-no slack to take up. . . . The gold reserves of the sterling area are all that now stand between us and disaster...
...Council sub-committee to study academic discrimination in the College was set up last spring following the controversy over Club 100's "no Negroes" admittance policy. In October this body, was replaced by the present full-stand Committee, which so far has been inactive...
Hearing on the Barnes Bill drew to a close yesterday as students from the University and other Massachusetts schools took the State House witness stand and blasted the anti-Communist measure on three counts...
...sheer weight of words and incidents and research were the only criteria, "Raintree Country" would be the Great American Novel that Mr. Lockridge so obviously intends it to be. Or if complexity of structure and multiplicity of symbolism were the means of indexing and ranking novels, it would stand close to the top. But something else, unfortunately, is needed...