Word: maintainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conant and Mr. Bingham, however, have thought the question through and have not been frightened to find themselves in new and untrod lands. For several years observers have doubted the efficacy of football receipts to maintain monumental athletic plants. Even a rise of twenty-five per cent in gridiron receipts would bring the H.A.A. income to less than half the 1929 figures. In addition to this, the rise of professional football, voted by the nation's sportswriters as the most significant event of 1934, tends to offset "recovery" in amateur football...
...three major parties, the Catholics, the Socialists and the Liberals, all contributed Ministers to the Cabinet of "National Union" formed by Professor van Zeeland at the invitation of His Majesty. The politicians' theory seemed to be that, since all three parties had pledged themselves to the voters to maintain the belga at its 1926 value in relation to gold, they all might as well cooperate in devaluing it further. Never was the clear mandate of an entire electorate more flatly disregarded. Soon the Chamber gave the van Zeeland Cabinet a vote of confidence 107-to-54, although...
...accordance with the position of responsibility occupied by members of the several managerial staffs, there has grown up a spirit of fraternity among them. One establishes many valuable contacts with coaches and graduates who maintain an interest in Harvard athletics...
...would not permit same gracious enjoyment of unostentatious luxuries-would have to live in city or commute, and he hates both; might be expected to work Saturdays, and reserves Saturdays for domestic pleasures; several times the income that keeps a comfortable cabin cruiser on Lake Chautauqua wouldn't maintain a yacht on the Hudson; stable of fine saddle horses can be kept almost adjoining spacious colonial home in Jamestown, but not so in New York City...
...sufficiently high or sufficiently low the other part of this program ought to be a source of considerable enjoyment. The impressario-virtuoso. Mr. Calloway brings his well known midnight growls, quavers, and rhythm to Boston with the usual bevy of cafe au-lait skinned "danseuses" and hoofers who maintain that especial negro poker-face and stiff shoulders while their feet execute the most fantastic feats of time and space. All the performers get very hot de musico and de facto and the band fades out to the well known dirge of Minnie the Moocher leaving the audience to its inane...