Word: standing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mather said Tito made it clear that he will stand firm against Soviet attempts to impinge on Yugoslavia's sovereignity or on Yugoslavia's experiment with a planned economy...
...rained steadily and sometimes heavily on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon, turning the field into a spongy mudflat and the visitors' stand into a puddle collector, but the varsity football team practiced outside until 5:30 p.m. before they moved into Briggs Cage. After the practice concluded, Coach Valpey said that the rain had not prevented him from doing all the work he had planned...
Most of the forums centered around discrimination and segregation, academic freedom, and the current debate on Federal aid to education. The NSA took a stand against discriminatory admissions practices, citing character and academic standing as the only bases for determining a student's desirability. The organization will work for legislative action against schools which perpetuate discriminatory policies...
...three blend into something few Harvard men can under stand, the "Stanford spirit." It is something that makes people cheer their heads off at rallies, wear rooters' caps at football games, and yell like mad for a team that loses every game. It is an odd fact that Stanford's cheering was best when their team was worst--they actually did lose every game. It is an attitude of friendliness and love for the school that pervades the campus. Everyone is friendly "down on the Leland Stanford Farm...
...serious side of student life, there is a strongly organized government. The administration stand is that the college should provide a full extra-curricular life which should be run by a student organization. This organization is the ASSU, the Associated Students of Stanford University. With a budget of $150,000, the elected executive committee of the ASSU does not try to influence publications' editorial policies, it has a controlling had on their finances and supports an unwritten law that the Daily prints no sex or crime stories. Once the Daily editor himself trial, but no mention of it was made...