Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extreme gravity of the present fiscal crisis in France (TIME, Dec. 28 et ante) was again made evident last week by the failure of Premier Briand and Finance Minister Doumer to secure the unanimous support of the Cabinet for M. Doumer's fiscal program for the coming year...
...Harriman is tall, slender, grave. Because she likes trees, she gave $80,000 to found a chair of Forestry at Yale; because she likes music, she is the founder and main support of the American Orchestral Society; because she appreciates art, she is planning to hold her trinational exhibition annually...
...statement by Edward C. Blum, genial president of Abraham & Straus ("the Perfect Store") summed the matter up: "Brooklyn with its more than 2,000,000 population can support an institution of collegiate degree very easily. The institutions of that character in Brooklyn now, although they art private, are crowded to capacity and there are many waiting to enter or go elsewhere for their studies...
...going to support any Court, it will not be one that we have set up alone or which reflects only our ideals. Other nations have their customs and their institutions, their thoughts and their methods of life. If a Court is going to be international, its composition will have to yield to what is good in all these various elements. Neither will it be possible to support a Court which is exactly perfect, or under which we assume absolutely no obligations. If we are seeking that opportunity, we might as well declare that we are opposed to supporting any Court...
...exceptionally gifted cast to support the exceptionally gifted Miss Cowl was assembled by the Frohman Co. Mabel Terry Lewis and Halliwell Hobbes-both from England-stood out pleasantly. Mr. Coward's invention and conversation for the first two acts were agile and entertaining. Toward the end he fumbled. The direction was in the hands of Basil Dean, an opinion of whose abilities is submitted elsewhere on this page...