Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatly regret that I have had to take this stand in opposition to so many good people and friends. But I feel it would be negligence of duty on my part if I did not point out what I consider carelessness, to say the least, on the part of those who run Harvard. I do not want to see Harvard continue to be the unwitting tool of the sinster influences that are now so powerful in this Country--influences responsible for the strange courses and action taken by many hitherto splendid institutions...
...Dull," said the Telegraph. "Extraordi narily dull," said the Times. "Incredibly naive and dull," said the Evening Stand ard. In Osborne's own words, Slickey got "the worst notices since Judas Iscariot...
...living in a fool's paradise where their patients may die. This is a favorite theme of Boston's Dr. Maxwell Finland. Most doctors have rationalized that, although the sulfas and antibiotics let some resistant microbes slip by, they save so many lives that their occasional failures stand out more. The "increase" in such cases, they argue, is only relative, not real. Last week Dr. Finland attacked this defense. In his saddest jeremiad yet, he asserted that the antimicrobial drugs have caused an actual increase in severe infections and deaths from some hitherto harmless or uncommon germs...
...speaker's stand at the great Exposition Hall at Omaha strode a spare, erect man with snapping blue eyes and firm jaw, his quick step springing to the band's blare of Marching Through Georgia. The date was June 1893. The speaker, in the double identity that was the theme of his life, was 1) Thomas Ewing Sherman, eldest surviving son of General William Tecumseh Sherman, who had died but two years befofe; 2) the Rev. Thomas Ewing Sherman, a militant Jesuit, known to the lecture circuit as "Father Tom." The Jesuit began to speak in bullet sentences...
...North Gate, by Gwyn Griffin. A taut little novel that shows Britons at an outlying African desert post trying to stand up under the white man's burden...