Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though such lively campaign utterances raised a furor of criticism, the electoral results showed 79 representatives potentially for repeal of the O. T. A. and only 32 left to support it. Within ten minutes after the returns were announced shares of Canadian Industrial Alcohol rose to a total increase in value of $3,200,000, and other Ontario distillery stocks similarly skyrocketed...
...them are debatable fields lying between organized activities. All of them need, it seems to me, the most careful cooperation between faculty and students, if that vitalizing of the courses of study which we all desire is to result. These fields are; (1) the student and his support; (2) the student and his choice of life work; (3) the student and his political status; (4) the student in academic and non-academic life; (5) faculty research and undergraduate instruction; (6) the choice of the college and the choice of the field of work; and finally, (7) the college student...
...then we agree that America is a hard place in which to do good teaching, we must be fair and admit that America intends to support teaching and does so with great enthusiasm. The difficulty is not one of intention, but one of understanding. America has a great belief in education; it has faith in education and wants it, but just what it is that it wants is not very clear. Our typical expression is "Culture or bust". Here it is "understanding or bust", and I think that we ought to look at both sides of this situation. America...
...leading statesman of Central Europe, considered this student organization of sufficient value to devote to its representatives his house, his dinner table, and his serious interest. Similarly older, more experienced, and outstanding educational leaders have, as it were, gone out of their way to give evidence of their serious support of the Federation. Dr. Meiklejohn, Dr. Duggan, President MacCracken, and President Little all spoke at Ann Arbor, recognizing the necessity for educational experiment, each pointing out different lines for such experiment, and each emphasizing the importance of student contribution to it. In other words they supported the chief purpose...
...snapped his whip and Nikolai Bukharin whom Stalin had already placed in the vice presidency was elected President. Bukharin is hand in glove with Stalin's policy of retrenchment in world revolutionary activities, but last week he was obliged to coddle the delegates by a fiery speech promising support of Chinese and Javanese Communists, the only Communist factions now actively embattled in their respective countries...