Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four veterans, undefeated in last year's dual contests, will support the team this season, and much promising material is expected from the Freshman team of last year. Practice will be held at either the Charles River Country Club or the Weston Golf Club, the final choice being as yet unknown...
Perhaps the success of European air transport may be attributed to the fact that it is heavily subsidized by the governments. Notwthstanding the present program of strict economy at Washington, government support for needed air lines would be entirely justified by the benefits such rapid transportation would confer upon the country. Much of the early railroad construction was carried out by means of state or federal subsidies in one form or another, and the results have in most cases amply warrented the expenditures. Through judicious government aid there could be built up a system of air transportation which would...
...Dennistouns were divorced and an arrangement was agreed upon whereby Colonel Dennistoun would support the divorcée when he 'was in a financial position to do so, provided that she would not press for a court order for alimony. In 1923, a few months after the death of the fifth Earl of Carnarvon of Tutankhamen fame, Colonel Dennistoun married Almina, the Dowager Countess...
...Peru, President Agusto Leguia expressed himself to Washington as pleased with the award; both Houses of the Peruvian Congress passed favorable resolutions toward it, promised the President their support in fulfilling the terms of the decision. As Peru is generally held to have lost forever the two Provinces of Tacna and Arica by virtue of the fact that a plebiscite is sure to go against her, the official attitude of the President and Congress was possibly nothing more than diplomacy; for the fact remained that, according to newspaper reports, the Peruvians were hotly incensed at the award, and were about...
...hysteria for the repression of minorities is dying a hard death, Employers still find public support for the breaking of strikes through resort to laws against criminal syndicalism. Any protest by labor unions is proof positive of the spread of sinister influence. And if cries are heard from the red or yellow press--the more need for stern suppression...