Word: standing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Florida primaries. But when James Roosevelt stopped off in Palm Beach last winter, he glibly announced: "It is our sincere hope that he [Claude Pepper] will be returned to the Senate." Mark Wilcox's acid comment: "The State of Florida is waiting with bated breath to see what stand Sistie and Buzzie [Dall] will take...
...instead of jargon, to be literate instead of literal. "The newspapers," said he, "are doing an excellent job in informing the public of the latest scientific happenings. My quarrel is with the scientists themselves. With the present status of scientific literature as a background, a well-written article would stand out in any standard periodical like the single light of a one-eyed car. Good writing can never take the place of good research, but the scholar who has something to say and says it well will command attention. Scientists are still humans, and they cannot experience an emotional thrill...
...Ickes showed up in Atlantic City, as the conference had hoped, to defend their work. Mr. Collier sent a message, in which he ducked religious issues, said his bureau is hampered by "a thousand antiquities," begged the co-operation of alert citizens, for "Indians will always have neighbors who stand to profit by despoiling whatever little property they may have, and debauching them as human beings...
...difficulty today, perhaps an individual one, is that the content and limitations of the newer rights are still obscure. The old pattern is thus broken but the new has yet to crystallize. And so we stand in hesitancy and doubt, conscious that we cannot and must not recreate the old, yet fearful...
Indeed the policy is so ideal in concept that it could stand more careful enforcement. Every year fifteen hundred men qualify scholastically for admission, and approximately a thousand are taken in. The grave responsibility attached to denying five hundred men a Harvard education appears at times to be taken too lightly, and with insufficient basis for discrimination...