Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recognition of the merits of Plan E and glossed over the flaws in an antiquated school system. That the city's 55,000 voters chose to maintain four enemies of Plan E on the City Council and return a veto-force of three to the School Committee must stand as a tribute to the sagacity of Cambridge politicians...
These points were for ERP, the long-term program. Once again Marshall pressed upon the congressional committeemen the Administration's plea that ERP should not stand in the way of the stopgap program for France, Italy and Austria. His latest figure for it: $597 million. "The urgency of the situation is so great that I recommend that no new agency be set up to handle this interim program...
...those stern guardians of national safety J. Parnell Thomas and John Rankin, a statement by another authority has been receiving considerable publicity lately. His name-Thomas Jefferson. His words-"If there be any among you who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left to combat...
...major exception, Jefferson's policy would stand today as universally right as it stood in 1801. The exception-civil service-has created an issue which both Rankin reactionaries and radicals consistently confound. On the one hand, the cavilling investigations by Rankin and Thomas suggest that anybody can be a dangerous enemy to the nation's security, while on the other, the radicals claim that nobody can hurt the country as long as true democracy is strong and vital. The fact is that, unlike movie stars, unlike writers, and unlike teachers, many civil service employees are in charge of business which...
...Goldovsky deserves credit not only for the staging of the opera and the general management of the enterprise, but especially for his conducting. the orchestra, though not enormous made Mozart's superb instrumental passages stand out Sunday as they seldom do, with the winds particularly good; and the entire opera was done with real spirit and good humor. "Don Giovanni" and "Idomenco" are next on the list in this Mozartean year; Mr. Goldovsky's treatment of their more difficult problems is awaited with interest and confidence. J.A.L