Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much more harmonious here today, from an architectural standpoint," decided Sir Laurence Olivier, after absenting himself from Hollywood a while. "In 1930, it made me dizzy to find an Arab mosque looking unflinchingly at an English abbey...
...Ohio's Robert Taft, who talked as if all the mobilization now going on was meant only to lick North Korea, instead of preparing for something worse. "I do not intend to say that the Korean war is not a real war," he argued. "But from an economic standpoint, it is not any particular strain on the economy...
...President had set in motion soon after the Communists began rolling). But in its blackboard arguments, NSC had never been able to make up its mind about sending U.S. troops. Infantryman Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, had held that Korea wasn't worth it from the standpoint of pure military strategy; the State Department-backed by the Navy-had said it very well might be, for reasons of U.S. prestige in Asia and U.S. leadership in the world...
...From the standpoint of individual statistics, tomorrow's game is important to Crimson Captain Johnny Caulfield. Caulfield is now third in league batting with a 414 average. Leading the league is Bob Haley of Cornell with 440. Both men have one game left and as it now stands Caulfield with 12 hits for 20 times at bat can still overtake Haley who has 11 hits for 25 at bats...
...Religion must be considered from the standpoint of one or another Christian taitn because, whether we like it or not U.S. and state laws are based on the concepts of the Christian religion." So spoke New Mexico's Attorney General Joe L. Martinez in arguing before the state supreme court that Lindrith High School pupils could legally say the Lord's Prayer in their classrooms and study "basic, non- denominational Christian concepts." Last week came a ringing war whoop from Indian-loving Novelist Oliver (Laughing Boy) La Farge in the Santa Fe New Mexican...