Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From our standpoint, one of the most interesting things about the average TIME-reading woman is the fact that she has been reading TIME from six to ten years or more...
...single out this precious item because, speaking as a writer and a Roman Catholic, I consider Mr. Waugh the most interesting of contemporary authors from the first standpoint, and the very deadliest from the second...
Concluded Pollster Roper: "Governor Dewey is not a surefire bet to win the presidency but he will be a hard candidate for the Democrats to defeat. Perhaps his greatest weakness, from the long-term standpoint of the Republican Party, is his lack of appeal to young voters. His greatest strengths are his record of efficient administration, his own strength in the Middle West and Warren's strength on the West Coast...
...Wind. Running to almost half a million words, Laski's book is both a general political history of the U.S. and a detailed analysis of American professions, trades, culture and state and federal governments. Every aspect of American life is judged from the standpoint of the militant, orthodox socialist who believes that government planning must replace free enterprise as the cornerstone of democratic life. A dependence on stock socialist phrases thus flaws many parts of the book. The American Democracy, for all its numerous flashes of donnish wit, is also windily repetitive, and some times dated in its judgment...
...individualism is to be saved, the attack on waste must be made from the opposite standpoint. The student must be made to want to use what Harvard offers, to know and dislike the waste before he graduates--the time when many men do finally understand and oppose it. The attack on waste must embrace a new willingness to change the archaie and the inadequate, and it must incorporate a new spirit of central responsibility for the methods and character of Harvard education...