Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...America's comparative naval competition. Mr. Coolidge with unusual dexterity has produced at exactly the psychological moment the more reasonable solution of limitation all round. The consternation yesterday of the paper patriots as reported in the metropolitan press was highly amusing. The manner in which they rushed to the support of the proposal and at the same time tried with much twisting and turning to have the cruisers augurs ill for this little attempt to ape the "Deutschland uber Alles" methods when it comes before the House again in the near future...
Lewis declared that he had never been out to Harvard, "but still", he said. "I have been to an Elks' initiation in Cambridge, so I thought I could do anything I liked in Cambridge." In support of this his final words were, "Mayor Quinn came to see me the last time I was up here: so he must be out of town just now or I'm sure he would have come right in to see me this time. I guess that sort of gives me the freedom of your city, all right...
...spite of poor teamwork and support Barbee and Green played good individual games. For Holy Cross Connors was the outstanding star with eight field goals and three free throws...
...professed and we have welcomed to our meetings students of all religious faiths. Our annual Christmas greetings are sent to five hundred graduates of Harvard engaged in educational, evangelical, agricultural and medical work abroad, regardless of their religious affiliations. Our educational project, the Daily Vacation Bible School, which we support each summer for the children of Cambridge, is conducted by a non-sectarian organization, its faculty is selected on a non-sectarian basis and the school is actually attended by Catholics and Protestants alike...
...recent lack of popular support at Harvard is due to causes suggested above, the annual contribution should be discontinued this year. If it can be traced instead to the ignorance which does enshroud the whole affair in Cambridge, the situation should certainly be remedied in the future. In any case, no contribution should be made by the Student Council until more is known. To foster an international consciousness in the minds of American students and some sort of intelligent understanding and cooperation between them and students of foreign nations is too worthy an ambition to be defeated by ineffective organizations...