Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cardinal told Italians to cherish their "Latin civilization . . . fused with Christianity." Declared he: "Politically, as from the religious standpoint, Italy has no need to take and borrow her faith and her social system from other peoples...
Consider the proposition from a standpoint of physique. Henry Lamar could hold spring practice, but have him hitch the bucking machine to the plow. Have the players tackle the spring planting instead of the dummies...
...faculty would love it, too, Bill. Kirtley Mather would be out there plumbing the sod for rocks, sort of an agricultural sapper in the van of the plow. And out beyond a potato patch would be Derwent Whittlesey, examining the topography of the 10-yard line from an economic standpoint. Sorokin could investigate the effect of farm life upon the Average College Man and Woman. We would have the linguists harking to the guttural shouts of the plowmen. The Grant Study would stage a mass invasion, weighted down with electrodes and calipers. Norman Fradd, the News Office, Professor Merk (History...
This trend finds its basis in a liberalization of former conditions here and the standpoint of the nation as a whole at present. Allport pointed out several factors from which he derived this conclusion...
Gandhi had survived a fast of 21 days without wringing a single concession from Linlithgow. There had been cold logic behind the Viceroy's refusal to release Gandhi. From the standpoint of the Indian Government, the triumph of Linlithgow was complete, the failure of Gandhi was unqualified...