Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conceivably could make further expense cuts of the sort that have created the current dearth of tutorial. The administration views such cuts uneasily because they would impair the quality of education at Harvard. Nor would they stand up logically in the face of the fact that the return to normal enrollment will be an advantage only insofar as it can unburden the physical plant and return educational standards to the prewar level...
...things stand now, this is probably the squad that will dress for tomorrow's opener against B.C., and it certainly is the core of the team that will go west during the Christmas vacation...
...much desperate hope for U.N.'s success bring forth such a schizoid mouse of futility? It was not the fault of the delegates-mostly hardworking, second-rate men who would have done no better had they been first-rate. U.N. could not stand above the nations because it was created by nations who wished nothing to stand above their sovereignty. And why was that? Because these nations did not recognize, as individuals within a nation did, the same basic laws; they were not parts of the same society. The Communist leaders had known this for 40 years...
Said Baruch, staring defiantly at his silent audience: "I do not fear Government taking its legitimate part in medicine, any more than I fear it in education or housing. ... I urge the doctors to get in and pitch-not stand by on the sidelines...
...haired boy (Ted Donaldson) and interminable praying by a pious terrier, Big Red wins the big race just in time to save the old homestead from the sheriff. Best bit: a gory battle royal between the stallion and a jolly black bear, which delegates all the infighting to a stand-in from the taxidermist...