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...temporary" steel rafters which were installed before the war to buttress a weak roof...
Although this meant that aid to China was at last out of the pigeonhole, it seemed too little, too late. Some grim Chinese, who compared Marshall's sum to the $500 million a month he proposed to spend to buttress Western Europe, decided that the time had come to write off the U.S. entirely. Said Chinese Vice President Sun Fo: "A drop in the bucket.. . . I've always had a hidden suspicion that American friendship was not dependable...
...Then, he saw a possible solution in the Quaker doctrine of "the inner light" which animated the life of Solon Banes, and which moved his daughter Etta to realize "the love and peace involved in consideration for others." In this frame, the study of Brahmanism becomes merely another buttress to the synthesis of religion and communism. When Dreiser has Berenice declare that "One must live for something outside one's self, something ... to answer the needs of the many as opposed to the vanities and comforts of the few," he is not only talking for his heroine. He also speaks...
Improvements that the Zionists have brought to Palestine and "the social and psychological needs of the Jewish displaced persons" were the chief arguments presented to buttress the affirmative case...
Quoting labor leaders William Green, John L. Lewis, and Phillip Murray to buttress their case, a negative team from Drew University defeated the Debate Council in Adams House last night in a contest on the subject of labor participation in management...