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Word: standing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quakers stand as the favorites. Besides owning the number four spot in league competition, they have been one of the few teams able to sit on Tony Lavelli and defeat Yale...

Author: By Albert J. Feldman, | Title: Penn Five Favored to Hand Varsity 15th Defeat Tonight | 3/1/1949 | See Source »

...should be remembered that what was sponsored was not the organization but a particular event in behalf of a worthy cause ... I challenge anyone to find any pro-Communist material in The Churchman in the 31 years I have been on the staff . . . The Churchman and its editor stand for the application of the principles of the prophets and Christianity to all social relationships. That is why we are under attack by those who wish to confuse social Christianity with Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Whose Front? | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...accepting the award. Wrote he: "I count this a high honor . . . The Churchman has stood courageously and creatively for our Christian faith and likewise for our democratic principles. In such an hour . . . it is good to know that there are really fearless journals that believe in liberty enough to stand resolutely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Whose Front? | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...Unitarian Birkhead, liberty is not the only thing that Oxnam and Shipler stand for. Said he last week: "Both Dr. Shipler and Bishop Oxnam have become darlings of the anti-Catholic movements in this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Whose Front? | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...this delicate period of readjustment.* [It would] give our Government a great deal more power than the Labor government in England has even asked for." (At the White House, President Truman said that even though some prices were leveling off, he still felt that he should have those stand-by price and wage controls-and that $4 billion in new taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Choose Your Own Word | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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