Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jessie ran ahead to the ticket stand, holding onto her hat. "I want a pink ticket," she stated as Clipper caught up. "This gentleman says only people under twelve can have pink tickets...
Since real estate companies "only reflect the will of the landlords and are dependent on them for commissions, these agencies cannot afford to take as firm a stand as voluntary non-profit groups can, Walter K. Winchester, Assistant Executive vice-President of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board, pointed...
Although the National Committee on Radiation Protection and Fallouts has decided that the human body can stand twice as much Strontium 90 as they previously thought possible, it is nice to know that someone is still thinking about ending nuclear bomb tests. President Eisenhower's note to Khrushchev this week asking for a stoppage of tests in the atmophere thirty miles above the earth--permitting underground tests until a satisfactory inspection system can be set up--suggests that the Administration is more than casually interested in the success of talks on this subject...
...score well on College Board Tests has never been satisfactorily established. The Predicted Rank List, which tries to sum up ability and motivation, is by no means infallibile, since Group IV PRL entrants have gone on to receive Magnas, and vice versa. Although an applicant will probably never stand or fall on Predicted Rank List alone, the trend is to lop off applicants on the very lowest range of ability. Five or six years ago, the average Harvard student was in the top 5 per cent of the nation's college group...
...agree that one goal of education is, in the happy phrase of Master Brower of Adams House, "a mind that speaks for itself." Perhaps we all forget once in a while that such a mind needs a forum in which to be heard, a platform on which to stand, or an audience to enlighten. In practical terms, this means that the enormous intellectual value of college drama would be lost to both actors and audience without the producers who don't walk out in the middle; that college writers can be heard only through the representatives of the CRIMSON...