Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that he is leader of the farm bloc in the Senate. The Senate with its loose organization is a much better field of operation for the farm bloc than is the House. Whatever legislation the junior Senator from Kansas espouses is likely not only to have the firm support of the farmer, but to have a good chance of enactment provided the Presidential veto does not intervene. At any rate as leader of the Senate farm bloc, Mr. Capper has as much power to disturb the even temper of that body's procedure as Mr. Curtis, his colleague...
...Nonrigid airships (balloons) are constructed with no metal framework in the gasbag save a ring at the bottom to which fabric, valves and passenger basket are attached. The semirigid dirigible ("blimp") employs a keel or spine of structural metal usually aluminum, to stiffen the under side of the envelope, support cabins, motors, crew. The rigid (Zeppelin) type of ship has a complete skeleton of struts and girders, with hoops articulated laterally inside its spine and ribs to form separate gas chambers when covered with fabric inside as well...
...public interest is not always accompanied by commensurate public financial support. The Museum received $400,000 in cash and specimens last year from benefactors, which was more than in any prior year. Yet in making his annual report of the Museum's affairs last week, President Henry Fairfield Osborn* was obliged to tell the trustees that the institution was financially crippled...
...fairness will recall that Mr. Ford is one personality and Keich's Theater quite another. CRIMSON editors, in the nature of the case, must be even more in a hurry than most editors; but here, surely, is a chance not to be overlooked to recognize a good move and support...
Mattie Julian, Negress, of De Paul University, said: "Too many of the churches have ministers who belong to the Ku Klux Klan. . . . Church people should support the anti-lynching...