Word: standing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admits Pundit Lippmann: "I never knew a President or heard of one who didn't want to be re-elected until I heard of James K. Polk. I stand corrected...
...Deal's thunder was now a low faint rumble far over the hills. But everybody recognized that, whether talking politics or philosophy, the ex-President was spending his time these days with sturdy, middle-of-the-road Republicans-the Homer Bunkers, Frank Fetzers, Art Priaulxs -who seemed to stand not for big business ideas or reform, but for fishing, making money, listening to Herbert Hoover, and voting...
While Patriarch Albert Maverick alternately glared and dozed, while the charges against Maury's co-defendants were dismissed, leaving Maury to stand alone, his trial raged in a superheated courtroom. A defense witness accused Burkett of once saying he wanted to get rid of Maury. A feminine witness for the prosecution admitted having called Maury "a crumb." Maury's 14-year-old daughter drew a picture of a devil with a forked tail, labeled it "Gittinger" ("Buck" Gittinger, Shock's assistant). Judge Bryce Ferguson, "Ma" Ferguson's nephew, slumped down in his chair almost...
...Communists. Russia's recent actions, and the Communist attitude toward Stalin--the "his country, right or wrong" attitude--have raised doubts about how far liberals and Communists can tread together the path toward a fuller democracy. A purge is not the way to quiet these doubts, for the Communists stand for certain progressive measures which belong in any liberal program. But the situation is hazy and formless. The H.S.U. contains on the one hand a tightly knit, unified Communist group; on the other hand a liberal potpourri. If the H.S.U. is to educate effectively, it must clear up this confusion...
...fulfillment of several "ifs" of of the first magnitude. If Bruce Richardson and Ted Schoenberg can get down to the 136 and 121 pound weight classes respectively for the big matches, and if Tom Lacey and Vern Miller are able to report for the mat sport, Harvard will stand a very good chance of having an undefeated year in dual meets. Both Richardson and Schoenberg will have their hands full trying to make these weights very often, but most Crimson opponents usually have some men wrestling one class below normal so the practice is anything...