Word: mainstays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principal export, nay the mainstay of Ecuador's economic existence, is cacao (the seeds of which provide cocoa and chocolate), but lately this crop has declined, causing great economic distress. To speak plainly, Ecuador is the most insignificant and poorest of the South American republics. She is supreme only in her production of the finest toquilla-the straw from which so-called Panama hats are woven...
...mostly in the raw. From this material of flesh and blood, we build an organization that must be, at all times, prepared to defend our country. Watching a group of green recruits grow in our hands into a smoothly-working organization which will in time of need be the mainstay of the defence of our country--therein lies the pride of our profession...
Although Dunn had no previous experience in lacrosse, he has developed into an excellent goal guard and a mainstay on the defense. Dunn's defensive work was largely responsible for the victory scored by the Freshmen over the Springfield College Seconds on April 23, in the first game of the season...
John Prior '29, first sacker on the 1928 diamond aggregation; leads the regular players with a mark of 470. This is Prior's first year on the University team. W. W. Lord '28, for two years a mainstay at the bat, trails with 428, while G. E. Donaghy '29, early season leader last year, ranks third, with a figure...
...Significance. The play was strange, not only by reason of its length. Playwright O'Neill re-introduced the aside, mainstay of earlier dramatists, long discarded by scornful realists. His people's words and actions he completed with their thoughts. Every few moments the action stopped completely while an immobile performer spoke what was rattling through his mind. The spoken word was often a direct denial of its companion thought. Suspicion, mastered grief, cynicism, inferiority?the raw matter of truth?were permitted and expressed. The author tried devotedly to give his hearers a third theatrical dimension. The strange convention, difficult...