Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson's stand on American Neutrality this spring has not been an easy one to uphold . . . This June morning we can still declare that coercive militarism in America boars no different stamp from militarism in Germany . . . But next September we may well be Americanized . . . and youth will be freed by definite action from skepticism and disillusionment." (June...
...announced that results of an informal poll among twenty-five college football teams indicate that players as well as coaches are over-whelmingly in favor of retaining the unlimited substitution rule. However, the football rules committee has as yet reached no final decision on whether the rule will stand...
Three missing-in-action cases have already appeared at the Registrar's Office with excuses for forgotten exams. As provided in faculty rulings, the three are considered to have failed. The annual stand-bys of malevolent alarm clocks and stalled cars gave way this year to a simple, "I thought it war tomorrow...
...when they were gone, he and his wife dined on chicken and fish. He displayed Christianity-once he baptized a whole regiment with a garden hose -but in 1930 he turned to Buddhism. He was a strict disciplinarian, and when his soldiers were late for drill he made them stand in a corner for as long as they had been late. Once, when he himself was the offender, he cracked down on himself. "Feng Yu-hsiang is ten minutes late!" he bellowed on the drill ground. "Feng Yu-hsiang must stand in the corner for ten minutes." Whereupon he turned...
...Methodist ministry because the ragtag-&-bobtail following he drew with his fiery street-corner sermons shocked his respectable brethren. Now the Army considers itself a religious body much like any other Protestant denomination, with an accent on works and service. But the old-fashioned blue-and-red uniforms still stand for humility and love-and another chance for sinners...