Word: standing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talk a lot about the future of America and the hope of the world. Both rest solely now upon the already bloody shoulders of young men who, facing a universe rotten to its core, yet dare to stand unbowed, and to declare (surprisingly enough!) honest and thoughtful convictions...
When he finally left Spain in December, James joined up with the Washington press bureau, and then he applied for the Nieman Fellowship. When the European war broke out, he was debating whether to go abroad or come to Harvard. He finally decided that a year would stand him well as a means to "collect his wits...
Professor McLaughlin of the Harvard Law School has taken the Crimson severely to task for its stand against prominent men who have publicly supported the Allies. Based on the assumption that the present war is a holy crusade of angels against devils, he has charged that the editors of this newspaper have "hysterical inhibitions against the thought of war." He goes on to characterize all who stand for American neutrality as fatuous, emotional, and cowardly, and supporters of the Allies as the only true, hard-headed logicians. On the contrary, the Crimson pleads for an unemotional, clear-headed survey...
...congratulate you on your stand against the utterances of distinguished gentleman who ought to know better. Stay with it. If you need ammunition, turn to the four articles written for the Saturday Evening Post by Frank Simonds just before he died. American undergraduates are fortunate in having one undergraduate newspaper that sees clearly, and I hope your example will be followed by every other undergraduate paper in the country . . . Kenneth Roberts...
...Allies. Keeping technical neutrality for the benefit of a lawless German government incapable of treating even its friends fairly is fatuous, and those who care for truth and for peace can no more defend Naziism than welcome other loathsome diseases. Fortunately for those who would rather have others stand in front, the Allies need airplanes more than men, so we need send no soldiers, certainly none who do not want to go. It would be decent to ourselves to send munitions free, most boorish to refuse credit. James Angell McLaughlin (Professor, Harvard Law School...