Word: buttressed
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...common resource. He used mass and shadow as a sculptor uses them, giving what is so hard to give in any two-dimensional art?the sense of a core, an inner heart of energy whose force, diffused through the etching, creates the thing seen, tower or bridge or buttress, as a piece of inevitable logic, the peremptory gesture of a hidden impulse. When he drew a crane he was not interested in making an accurate picture of a piece of machinery used to lift stones; the crane became as vital a thing as a comet, a mountain or a waterfall...
...prestige of France and Germany had become involved up to the hilt over a matter intrinsically of secondary import. Premier Briand was expected by his countrymen to insert Poland as a buttress against anti-French influence on the Council from Germany. Chancellor Luther was daily instructed from Berlin that he must withdraw the German application for League membership if the Council was going to be packed against Germany. Sir Austen Chamberlain found himself in a still more awkward position. The British press flayed him daily because he did not insist that, whatever happened, Germany must be got within the League...
Meantime business, the buttress of finance; business, which had not impelled the late financial gyrations; business-despite the violent vibrations from above-maintained its excellent present equilibrium...
...Dawes, as head of the commission which drafted the Dawes Report, is a strong buttress, to the Republican ticket. But Mr. Dawes, as the suspeoted backer of Lorimer in his famous swindle, has the double aspect and doubtful value of a political interrogation point...
...understand each others' motives or because the unions in those industries are not strong enough to enforce any other condition. Shop committees are unsatisfactory in that they rarely produce capable leaders and cannot make agreements which will extend over a wide field. And Mr. Bullard's arguments for the buttress which public opinion would afford Labor if the latter would accept the open shop are inconclusive. In fact he mentions at the close of his article the great difficulty of arousing public opinion...