Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea that an undergraduate publication should admit the curriculum to its news columns, and particularly that it should admit it on the eve of the football season, appeared to commentators a most astounding, if not preposterous, departure from established policy. Ostensibly the established policy of an undergraduate publication was support of or at least interest in everything except the essential work for which men came to college...
...support this charge M. Raditch produced a witness than whom none could be more pertinent: M. Liuba Jevanocitch, a supposed henchman of the Premier and Vice President of the Government (Radical) Party. Together M. Raditch and M. Jevanocitch denounced the Premier and his son to pressmen. Loudly they demanded that the Narodna Skupstina (National Assembly) be convened...
...Four steel trusses, each of 156 tons and so the world's largest, were fastened into the skeleton of the new Level Club (Masonic) in Manhattan last week by 8,000 rivets each. They will dome an auditorium, support above nine stories of hotel bedrooms. Engineers, architects and builders studied their placement...
Many lifelong readers of the Times wondered how much longer they would continue to support a paper which has not only misapplied the title of the Vicar of Christ but has even headlined...
...villages in the Lebanon Mountains were destroyed, many of the orphans who had been placed with relatives by the efforts of the Near East Relief were made homeless. And now the city of Beirut is filled with refugees chiefly women and children, penniless and without any means of support or protection, who have only the rags they are wearing to shield them from the chill Syrian winter and the burning desert sun of summer...