Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single item in U.S.A.'s report was a $960,000 increase in the international's net worth (bringing it up to $1,775,000). U.S.A. explained it as a "cancellation by the Executive Board of C.I.O. of certain advances," which was accurate enough from C.I.O.'s standpoint, but must have made John L. Lewis grind his teeth...
...Sometimes, however, there is too much material to be covered in an hour; hence important points are overloked. Professor Malcolm P. McNair, who has been closely connected with the development of the system, pointed out another weakness, when he suggested that "not enough attention is paid to the pedagogical standpoint. A good case should be like a detective story. Clues ought to be there, but not obvious enough to give the answer away. A certain amount of dramatization is needed, and this requires all the niceties of composition." He further indicated that the present tendency is to place too much...
...Whether by using land transport or making it safe to send their convoys through the Mediterranean, the Allies will save a 12,000-mile voyage around Africa for troops and supplies. From a military standpoint, this saving will be the equivalent of raising hundreds of ships that Hitler's U-boats have already sunk...
Toward Germany, Russia's aims were equally clear: "It is not our aim to destroy Germany, for it is impossible to destroy Germany. ... It is not our aim to destroy all military force in Germany. ... It is inadvisable from the standpoint of the future...
...have shaken U.S. isolationism politically, but it was news last week when a professor challenged its tacit acceptance in U.S. history teaching. At Columbia University's Barnard College (for women) Professor Eugene Hugh Byrne announced a course in "de-isolationized" U.S. history: "World history from the American standpoint...