Word: standing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marriage," as the Radcliffe Student Council does, or call it "Sex Hygiene," as is the usual custom, the fact should be faced that a course dealing with sex ought to have a niche in the catalogue of courses. It is possible, some will suggest, that most local students would stand little to learn from such a course; but it is more likely that enough undergraduates to fill at least a medium-sized classroom do not feel their knowledge on the subject to be exhaustive...
...undertaking an examination of undergraduate life at Harvard. The editorials in the first part of the series have attempted to reveal the situation as it is, not to reach final conclusions nor to recommend changes. Later editorials will view the picture as a whole and take a definite stand on problems that have been raised, and the final part of the series will make definite recommendations...
Gathering the next day on the Capitol steps, they split to buttonhole legislators and other public officials and review their stand on the pending training proposals...
...just returned from a fishing voyage with his boy apprentice dead. The inquest absolves him, but with sinister warnings that it had better not happen again, and the townspeople gossip about him. Peter rages: "Charges that no court has made will be shouted at my head . . . let me stand trial. Bring the accusers to the hall...
...giggling at the studio audience, celebrated his tenth anniversary on the air. "Life is so daily with me," he cackled, "that I haven't had time to think about what has happened. But now that you mention it, I'm thilled the public has been able to stand me so long...