Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question is one of money, and until the United States-is able to support an army of sufficient size, until the Administration is aroused to the real need, nothing can be done and we shall in the meantime continue to perish by degrees." When these words reached Washington, D. C., it happened that Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis was away and also Assistant Secretary of War Hanford MacNider. The Acting Secretary of War was, for the moment, Brigadier General Briant Harris Wells, Deputy Chief of Staff. Perhaps it was to save General Wells the embarrassment of giving an order...
...modify their own policies in order to take care of the Japanese increase in population. If they were unwilling to accept Japanese immigrants, it was their duty to provide Japan with raw materials and to buy from her more and more manufactured products, and so help her to support her increasing population...
...Public Responsibility for Education: State Support of Higher Institutions," Professor Cabot, Lawrence...
...football game? Since the renewal of football relations in 1922 between Dartmouth and Harvard, the games played have been symbolic of the finest relations that can exist between colleges. The teams, reflecting the spirit of their colleges, play good, clean, hard, football. The stands reflecting this same spirit, support their teams with the finest sportsmanship which is due them. Dartmouth men come to see these games of unexcelled sportsmanship and to pack their team with a spirit of fine play...
Haya de la Torre, a South American who has spoken a good deal in England and in the United States on South American subjects, will uphold the affirmative and J. P. Baxter, history tutor and Instructor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics, will support the negative. After the four speakers have finished, the floor will be open to all present...