Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rocket is now in that most interesting period of discovery where the shorelines are unplotted and the future limited only by imagination. . . . As the airplane gave man freedom from the earth, the rocket offers him freedom from the air. From the standpoint of science, the rocket offers the only known possibility of sending instruments to altitudes above those reached by sounding balloons. . . . From the standpoint of commerce, we must look to the rocket if we hope to attain speeds of transport above a few hundred miles an hour. . . . From the standpoint of war, we must consider the fact that rockets...
What remained true was that, from a political standpoint, 150 rich men could do much to make the country forget Nine Old Men. Politicians calculated that with the Wages & Hours bill which he proposed fortnight ago, plus a red-hot new hunt for malefactors of great wealth, the President might recover some of the popularity he had lost on the Supreme Court issue...
...forcing Congress to pass his Court bill, he could have shown Congressmen that he still had the upper hand. Usually a master of compromise, he had refused all compromise on the Court issue as if determined to force a showdown at the beginning of his second term. From this standpoint the Van Devanter resignation was distinctly bad news...
...first time in six years was tempered by the realization that the rise amounted to iff per week per member. In his annual report President Ernest Philip Pfatteicher flayed much, including the "growing practice" of holding funerals in funeral parlors, which he called "a step backward from the Christian standpoint." President Pfatteicher also observed: "The Church has undoubtedly lost much of its onetime prestige in metropolitan centres in which discouraged churchmen have chosen to 'let George do it,' and by 'George' we mean snapshot Federations, semi-scientific social welfare groups and politicians...
Another alternative has been suggested since it is often objected that Physics C is overly elementary. Were this course limited in scope and approached from the standpoint of the application of calculus to simple physical phenomena, this difficulty would be remedied. This alternation would take advantage of the long neglected Mathmatics A prerequisite for Physics C, and would give students an easy introduction to the mechanism of mathematics as an implement in problems in the physical sciences. From that point undergraduates would be fitted to be carried on with less professorial guidance...