Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be difficult to support them [the foundations of government and society] if faith in Bible teachings should cease to be practically universal in our country. ... It seems as though a popular familiarity with the Scriptures is not so great at the present time as it has been in the past in American life." So wrote President Coolidge to one Eugene E. Thompson, organizer of Bible classes at the Church of the Epiphany, Washington...
These mountaineers?his feudal retainers?are the true and only stable support of his power. At 16, he succeeded to his late father's duties as Chief; and since the second Balkan War he has gradually assumed an increasingly dominant national position, winning other tribal clans to his support with tact and skill. During the two years of his presidency there have been built 300 bridges and almost 1,000 kilometres of roads?a desperate necessity if Albanian commerce is ever to develop...
That fiery little weekly. The New Student, continues on its youthful and unconventional career, undisturbed by the sheers of conservatives and wholeheartedly in support of the most advanced policies in undergraduate thought. Up holding such a position, the publication occasionally strays from the course of sanity but on the whole it is surprisingly sound in its principles...
Following the implication of Dr. Angell's remarks to their conclusion, part of the burden of the cost of bettering education must fall upon the parents of students. It is they upon whom increase of tuition would fall. A possible expedient for enlisting their support might be the sliding system of tuition now in existence at Kent School where no boy is excluded because of parental inability to support him, where several parents pay as much as twice the tuition fee, and where the average fee is well over that the school sets as a standard. Objection to this scheme...
...Chester Alan Arthur (1830-86), New York widower-politician, polished, unfastidious, who was nominated for Vice President as running mate of James Abram Garfield to mollify and obtain the political support of Spoilsman Roscoe Conkling and his gangs of "Stalwarts." When Garfield died from Assassin Charles Guiteau's bullet, Arthur served for three years as "the only man of the world, in the best sense of the term, who has ever occupied the White House...