Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee on the Judiciary, headed by Sen. William E. Jenner (Rep.-Ind.) came to Boston last March, the Post gave the first day's hearings six pages of publicity. This, despite its editorial of the previous week, which opposed televising such hearings because "excess publicity is bad from any standpoint except that of the personal publicity that is likely to accrue to committee members." The day before the hearings opened, Kirtley Mather, professor of Geology, who for years has been accused of Communist front activities, announced he had been subpoenaed and said he "would cooperate to the fullest extent possible...
...earthly eye, the hotel ballroom seemed less than a quarter full, but the Rev. Richard Renardo looked out over the empty chairs and said: "All our loved ones from the spirit world are with us. The room is not large enough when you consider it from that standpoint...
...today, it is rapidly becoming reality. Most Southerners feel that unless they make "separate but equal" a fact, the courts are sure to saddle them with "whole hog" rulings, i.e., complete equality. Many states are hastily building fine new Negro schools and hospitals, although from a purely economic standpoint, "separate but equal" schools are insanely wasteful. Most Southerners no longer sneer at the educated Negro as "biggety"; many want to help the Negro get a better education, better jobs and better housing, and let the rest take care of itself...
...Albert was deserted at a critical moment by a gifted pupil on whom he largely depended for his theoretical ideas, he actually solved an impossible problem in the synthesis of a nerve gas. It was Albert's greatest triumph-marred only by the misfortune (from Albert's standpoint) that neither side used nerve gas in World...
...they should no more bring the three Boston schools into the hockey league than into a football league. They fail to note, however, that while almost everyone has a football team, there are few hockey teams, and that the current league would be a natural one from a competitive standpoint. The officials feel, however, that with lower academic requirements, the three schools can maintain an athletic standard which the Ivy League cannot meet. But a consistent policy here would find the Pentagonals either enlarging the Hockey League or taking their skates home and not playing the Boston schools...