Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cause him severe setbacks, and has already cost him one. A tiny nation, Yugoslavia, had dared to defy him, with the result that the plans for his spring campaign in the Balkans had to be completely revised. Now his armies are committed to crush Yugoslavia, from Hitler's standpoint a useless and costly campaign-costly at any rate in time...
From the nutritional standpoint, dairy, fruit and vegetable products have long been a signal deficiency in the U. S. national diet. The next phase of defense is almost certain to see Nutrition emerge as a national slogan. To Agriculture officials, the task of feeding the democracies interlocks nicely with their own long-term aims: move the farmers out of surplus export crops, and give the U. S. better-balanced rations...
From the bankers' standpoint, the first nine years of RFC were the easiest. Jesse Jones always said: "We only take what the banks leave over." When excoriating the New Deal, the bankers always made an exception of their friend and fellow businessman, Uncle Jesse. But last week this beautiful friendship was strained...
...Princeton, RCA hopes to continue television's advance technically, to make facsimile broadcasting commercially practical. But whatever else it may do at Princeton, RCA is certain to examine radio from the standpoint of national defense...
...days. The suggestion that extreme inequalities of wealth, and private ownership of the means of production, may be bars between our present world and "a just order of society" is still the same when it is placed on a moral basis as when it is treated from an economic standpoint. The proposals that the proper purpose of work is the satisfaction of human needs and that labor deserves a voice in industry equal to that of capital are as cogent when called part of Christian doctrine as when published in manifestos...