Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chance to pick up courses which they cannot otherwise fit into their programs. The present policy denies these students a summer at another college with a different outlook, and it prevents specialists from getting credit for work at schools particularly strong in their fields. To outsiders, the College's stand looks suspiciously like traditional "Harvard snobbery;" for undergraduates, it is both unjust and unnecessary...
Morrison testified that he saw no reason for the book to be censored." The defense had called him to the stand to speak as an expert witness...
Boston's astute Director Mirski, an old hand at presenting local artists to Boston society, eliminated the usual opening-day cocktails and canapes for the Bloom exhibition. He hung the more cadaverish canvases upstairs, on the assumption that anybody who could walk upstairs could stand what he would...
...time "Pretty Boy" breaks down on the stand and sobs out his confession, moviegoers are likely to conclude that the electric chair is just what he deserves...
...King Lear had a happy ending and Macbeth had been refitted with low-comedy witches. While one actor rumbled through his speeches, another might nod to his friends in the audience, fix his buttons or ostentatiously spit on the stage. Audiences were noisy and quarrelsome, and privileged dandies would stand in the wings loudly gossiping. Occasionally, a drunken beau would stray on to the stage to kiss the leading lady...