Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accordance with the English custom, no judges decision will be rendered. The teams are trying to win the support of the house, the verdict being in the hands of the audience alone. The vote will be taken by written ballots which will be collected by the ushers and counted under the supervision of the official tellers, Mr. Lourie and J. W. D. Seymour...
...years old; the conclusion does not affect the Bible in the slightest degree. Or, if one is worried over the progressive appearance of land, plants, animals, and man on the successive six days of a "Creation Week," there is well-known Biblical support for the scientists' contention that eons rather than hours elapsed while these things were taking place...
Last week, Jews, having received, decided to give. The Council of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York made ready plans for four "Million-Dollar-Days" (Nov. 16, 17, 18 and 19), on which Jewish trade committeemen will attempt to extract a total of $4,000,000 for charitable purposes from their brethren. The names of Col. Michael Friedsam (of B. Altman & Co.) and of Arthur Lehman were honorably prefixed to Million-Dollar-Days Nov. 16 and Nov. 17 respectively...
...standard is not an unreasonable one to be expected of students receiving financial assistance from University funds. For example, the 108 Alumni Scholars have earned by self-support employment during the past academic year an average of $375 per man, exclusive of summer work; have taken an active part in curriculum activities of all kinds and have won social, literary, dramatic and athletic recognition; but at the same time have maintained a general scholastic average of 79, within one point of 'honors' and well above the 'quality credit' average of 75 now being adopted as the minimum scholastic qualification...
...Many students, on the other hand, have been handicapped in their classroom work as a result of inadequate financial assistance and of the consequent necessity of spending front three to four hours a day in self-support. One reason why the average grade of the Alumni scholars is higher than that of scholarship recipients as a whale, may well be because of the markedly higher stipends, nearly $500, which Alumni scholars receive. It is hoped that the change in system will enable scholarship recipients to turn part of the time now taken up by self-support to more educationally advantageous...