Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place. This dispersion severely limits the physical act of campaigning, the lack of which pains Prins. (It also limits the acquaintanceship of most of us to students within our own fields.) Beyond this, the nature of questions like tuition rises and examination systems precludes a candidate's taking a stand without the extensive research and investigation that preceded the Council's own recommendations on these matters. Democracy is not just campaigning on issues, and there are few, if any, real "issues" here. The really important thing is to find people to work on what problems there are and to reflect...
...Baldwin upheld his raggedly passing team with a smooth performance at attack, but little could be done to with-stand the push of the fast Green and White team...
Harvard officials generally agreed that the question of joint exams was up to Radcliffe, since they felt that neither efficiency of operation nor financial savings was at stake. Harvard's Student Council declined to take a stand...
During Schlesinger's speech, the History professor questioned the meaning of the term "Free Enterprise." He said it either meant freedom from government intervention or freedom from mon- opolies and cartelization. If the former is reliant, "the Free Enterprise members must face political chaos because the people will not stand for 'apple selling again...
...handful of assistant revolutionaries, including a slant-eyed girl named China Valdes (Jennifer Jones). Garfield puts his crew to work digging a tunnel from the cellar of Jennifer's home to a nearby cemetery. His lurid plan: to blow the dictator and his cabinet to smithereens as they stand about the family tomb of a bigwig senator whom Garfield has already earmarked for assassination...