Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have no desire to revive an old controversy, particularly when for once the CRIMSON and the Dean agree on a basic, issue. Nevertheless, in justice to the Faculty Committee on Student Activities I can not let certain statements in your editorial of last Monday entitled "Bender on Communists" stand unchallenged...
...grounds that a high percentage of its contents was written by non-Harvard authors. Yet literary magazines have often printed issues written entirely outside Harvard without protest from University Hall. Thus the political content of The New Student seemed to be the key factor in determining University Hall's stand against the magazine...
...voice gets lower and his forehead furrows deeper as the trial pushes its way through an unusually accurate court-fight; he almost gets the guy off except for the last-ditch try of a suitably cynical district attorney who comes through for law-and-order with a witness-stand confession. The picture is populated with Bogart's standard collection of pool-sharks, fifty-year old newsboys named "Junior," and punch-drunk bartenders, but the big star is the camera, which pokes behind garbage cans, into alleyways, and peers around the courtroom with far more than usual perception...
...doing so, few could avoid fascinated and furtive speculation as to just how much the Treasury would stand in the way of claims for reimbursement. The Government, which got enough milk from enough mice to make a very large cheese, pretended not to notice hidden flaws in the citizen's moral fiber. It maintained a bland and jolly attitude about the whole thing and publicly assumed that every man was rushing to the mailbox with a scrupulously honest accounting of his financial status. But from behind this smiling front, it watched the populace beadily; the Internal Revenue Bureau already...
...Houston theaters of The Green Promise. An earnestly wholesome movie about the 4-H Clubs, it was the first film of Glenn McCarthy Productions. Says McCarthy: "Of course I have several other things planned, but I can't tell about them now . . . You don't just stand still, you know...