Word: steadfast
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...demonstrate the nature of their primary task. For example, the public entertainment business in which almost all of us are engaged has become so competitive as to generate public scandals. (Let us remember Harvard was the first college to build a stadium, and if President Lowell had not stood steadfast against alumni pressure, we would have today a giant stadium built in the gay twenties on borrowed money.) Another reason, perhaps, for public suspicion of the colleges is the special position they have occupied under the Selective Service Act as this has been administered. A group of college presidents...
Beyond next spring, when the Old Vic season ends, Claire has no plans. She may do another movie-if she likes the part. But her heart and eye are steadfast on her first and only love: the theater. Says she: "I couldn't bear to be just a film star. I'm much too ambitious for that...
MacLeish said yesterday that he would devote some of his talk to praising the steadfast stand the college has taken against the many charges of Communism between October...
...from hand to mouth and from month to month in this world of change and turmoil. We must create by long and steady systems of trade and exchange throughout our Empire and Commonwealth, and throughout the wider world, reserves of strength and solvency which enable us to rise solid, steadfast and superior . . . Thus and thus alone can we stand firm and unbroken against all the winds that blow...
...going too far. They found ominous the sights & sounds of Boer chauvinism: the way Malanite musclemen break up opposition meetings with eggs, tomatoes and stones; the budding of a private Nationalist army (Skietkommando) along the lines of Hitler's SS; the uniformed children chanting "Hou Koers" (Hold steadfast...