Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fourth estate, after seeing, the official movies, and without the benefit of coaching (Crimson or otherwise) from the sidelines, strongly implied in print last night that atrocious officiating had cost the visiting team the ball game. We state this merely as news facts and take no subjective stand until viewing the movies ourselves in the next...
...effect of the academic and social organization of the College on the individual student. Early editorials in the series will attempt to reveal the situation as it exists, not to reach conclusions or to recommend changes. Later editorials will view the picture as a whole and take a definite stand on problems that have been raised...
...available to the Board of Admissions, as well as placement grades and a confidential parental letter. These advisers do not necessarily pamper or subdue the individual. Rather do they help him to adapt his individuality to his college with a minimum of friction, a minimum of mistakes. They stand as interpreters of the University, not as mere representatives of its rule books. When a Freshman arrives full of eagerness to plunge into his field of concentration, such an adviser shows him the pitfalls of a narrow first year curriculum. When a Freshman is doubtful of the line his college career...
...Dalton might take heart from the remarks of a friend to Wilde's indiscreet hero: "Well, the English can't stand a man who is always saying he is in the right, but they are very fond of a man who admits that he has been in the wrong." Said one M.P. of the temporarily disgraced Dalton: "He'll serve his penance on the back bench for a few months-but mark my words, Hugh will get back...
Work. Winant believed that the British people would stand up under the bombing, and his task became one of selling his thesis to his superiors. (He pays a tribute to General Tooey Spaatz, who was sent to London by Roosevelt to measure Britain's chance of survival: "No man in the United States had a more accurate evaluation of the strength of the German air force...