Word: standpoints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trips ashore it has seemed wise to establish the policy that students may not take side trips apart from the entire party. The value of these trips will be enhanced by the personal contacts that are made and the places that may be visited from an educational standpoint under the guidance of representatives of the foreign governments or of the local university or other educational organizations...
This moderate offer, unsatisfactory though it is from the human standpoint, is probably the best practical plan for placing the coal industry on a sound basis. With British fondness for the workable solution, the disputants will in all probability accept the Premier's offer in principle. Anglo-Saxons have no desire to chase immaterial utopias...
...basketball. The dangerous features of the sport have been eliminated by the use of padding and helmets. Fatal injury to players has been done away with as much as in any other game. In fact, while there are still a good many small injuries, that, from the spectator's standpoint, appear sufficient to send a player to his happy hunting ground, probably no sport has sustained so few serious accidents...
What the malcontent Democrats are saying is: This session of Congress from a political standpoint has been a total loss. Where, where under sun or moon or in the dark of night is Democratic leadership? Where is the opposition...
...Gatti-Casazza, the general manager, frequently protests against sending the entire company to Atlanta. From his standpoint, you can't blame him, for his job is to run the company, and if possible make financial ends meet. The Atlanta trip each year is a losing venture financially, and it is a huge undertaking, but I always tell him that as long as I live he'll have to include the Atlanta season in his plans. Why? Well, I fell in love with Atlanta twelve years ago, and it is a love to which I have been faithful...