Word: standing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came the Crusaders with one long pass and a long scoring pass featuring the drive. And with the help of several very bad Harvard punts, and several more very good passes by Malloy, the Crusaders were on the one inch line at the half. Only a fine goal-line stand prevented a touchdown...
...things now stand, "A Touch" is scheduled for a nation-wide tour some time in the near future. Its one-night stand in Cambridge, however, may turn out to be its only Boston showing. This fact, coupled with its timely premiere on the eve of a football weekend, has probably accounted for the sell-out anticipated by members of the club...
Frederick L. Dunn '51 was trapped last month on the vertical wall of a 700-foot cliff in British Columbia. Below him was a 500-foot sheer drop to a pile of avalanche rock and above him a 200-foot granite face; he had nothing to stand on but a rock ledge two feet wide. The sun had set and a blizzard was tearing about him, and there was only one thing Dunn conld do. He rolled out his sleeping bag and went...
Murray had hoped to be able to throw out the Communists at the coming national convention. Armed with a strong steel stand, he might have managed it with comparatively little trouble; but now he is on very weak ground, open to damaging accusations that he has given up on the fourth round and is going along with big business. Now, Murray was undoubtedly right from a long-range point of view when he dropped the wage demands and stuck merely to pensions; but his locals won't see it the same way as the public. To them, it could...
While the Commission on Saturday adhered to its stand on Communist teachers, it "wished also to emphasize again that citizens should be especially alert at this time to defend the essential need of their schools for freedom of teaching and learning...