Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...institutions, in devotion of the material resources of communities to its purposes, and in its hold upon popular faith and the popular imagination, organized education has the place in American society of today which organized religion had in the society of the Middle Ages. . . . Nothing commanded the devoted support of all conditions of men as did the religious foundations of the time. The extent to which accumulated wealth was put aside to set up and maintain religious foundations in the Middle Ages is unique until the great educational foundations of twentieth-century America...
What will the boys of Blackrock College, where he is again a professor, think of being taught "maths" by such a colossus? The answer is irrelevant. Mr. de Valera has a large* family to support and to support it he must work like all others in that country "where peace has broken...
Would the Socialist M. Émile Van der Velde accept the Premiership? Certainly. But neither the Catholics nor the Liberals would support him and, since a coalition government was the only one possible, M. Van der Velde had to renounce the Premiership...
...imposing record of seven runs and only two defeats, those by Exeter and Andover. Puffer has been by far the most successful of the second-string pitchers, and is expected to do well against the Blue substitutes. Last year he let the Elis down with four hits, but poor support enabled the New Haven outfit...
Specifically, his point was that the omission of a comma in a long sentence in the Land Grant Act of 1870 enabled the Northern Pacific R. R. Co. to withhold land from settlers longer than had been intended by Congress. To support his argument, Mr. McGowan produced a letter giving a grammatical analysis of the disputed sentence, signed by Tucker Brooke (ex-Rhodes Scholar and Editor of The American Oxonian), Secretary of the English Department at Yale, and Prof. George H. Nettleton, Chairman of the Department...