Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obvious result of this insufficient wage is to recruit the aid of all members of the family of working age in the support of the family. Fifty percent of the workers in the mills are women...
...perhaps, the necessity of an occasional bit of drabness in landscape as well as in life. There are still those who enjoy the mists of a dull November morning in a marsh without "Even your best friend won't tell you" to worry the drab winged duck. Billboards may support nature admirably--it is only fair to realize how admirably they can nurse her failings. Yet for some they will never need to--nature, even in New Jersey or Nebraska, has an occasional good friend...
...purpose of the Committee is, in its essence, to establish a liaison between Harvard and the various schools from which the College draws its support. It has been a feeling long existing in the University, that there ought to be some means of systematizing the relations of the College and the men who have decided upon coming to Harvard with the purpose of insuring the fulfillment of the obligations which the University owes to these men as prospective members...
...good loser when necessary. But now that there has been added to this a financial question, he may feel that his sporting chance has been supplanted by a plutocratic rule. His loyalty will not waver, but he may feel hurt that his chance to cheer for, fight for, and support his team has been put on a money premium, and that his fair alma mater has taken to playing favorites. This is especially true of the younger alumni to whom the dollar seems more than a curiously designed symbol. And unfortunately so, for theirs is the greatest enthusiasm, and theirs...
...question whether this change will throw it over in the wrong direction; and public opinion does count despite Harvard indifference. Is it necessary to call the attention of the sport world to the fact that football has ceased to be "one of the boys" and has become the sole support of a large family...