Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Polygamy has been slowly dying out in Turkey for more than a century, because of the inability of modern Turkish husbands to support plural wives in the style and under the economic conditions of today. An analagous case is the decrease in the amount of food on Occidental tables since Colonial times of heavy eating when eggs were 4? a dozen instead 49?, and other food prices were proportionate...
...Belt, was seen last week in an action of its president. Dr. William Preston Few, president of Trinity College (1910-24) and of Duke University since Trinity married a fortune, arose before the education association of the southern wing of the Methodist Episcopal† Church, and obtained almost unanimous support for a resolution: "We . . . here put ourselves on record as opposed to all legislation that would interfere with the proper teaching of science in American schools and colleges ... we are opposed to legislation because we believe it will be futile and can serve no good purpose...
...Smithsonian thus pursued wide activities without spending more than its income. When convenient, it turned over its ever multiplying departments to 'the Government for support, continuing only to supervise. Thus arose the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, the U. S. Geological Survey, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the National Zoological Park, the National Gallery...
...quite right in taking the position that the S. F. F. has no right to appeal to Harvard University as such through its Student Council to support an avowardly Christian programme. On the other hand it cannot be questioned that the present world situation makes an appeal to Christian students for the furtherance of the aims of the S. F. F. entirely justified. I feel sure that there are many in Harvard University who will lend their support to this attempt to foster "some sort of intelligent cooperation and understanding" among the students of the world on this basis...
...educational reform from coast to coast. The Transcript is eminently right, and if, in its editorial, the second point is so little clarified as to appear inconsistent with the first, that condition may fairly be ascribed to the eager haste with which the writer has rushed to the support of measures which have been written and agitated for so extensively during the past decade rather than to any immaturity of understanding in educational problems...