Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the beginning of Bolshevik rule the dictator's hold has been precarious. But external circumstances helped him. Continued hostility of foreign countries mustered all the force of Russian patriotism to support the Bolshevik cause. But this bulwark, of late, is losing force. The great dictator is dead. Establishment of diplomatic relations with the important countries of Europe, moreover, brings peace with the outside world a condition new to Soviet experience. With pressure from without removed, Russian national feeling wanes. Now for the first time the Russian has leisure to survey conditions at home. And the suspicion prevails that...
Fred Stone is one of the best known figures of the American musical comedy stage. The success of his show, "Stepping Stones", in which he and his daughter play the most important roles, has demonstrated the fact that the public will support clean musical comedy...
...failed to attend the mass meeting yesterday. He seemed to share the popular delusion that loyalty to the University and loyalty to the Eleven are synonymous. It is a peculiar type of loyalty, which manifests itself only in regard to football, but does not include support of any other branch of activity, athletic or otherwise...
...debaters need no mass meeting to inspite their efforts the track men do not curl up and quit if the Stadium is not filled with an enthusiastic throng. The best interests of the University are not necessarily served by a winning football team nor the best spirit exhibited by support of one Harvard's claim to greatness does not rest upon the same grounds for fame which can be possessed by almost every academy or suburban high school throughout the country. Yours very truly. Gerard D Reilly...
...broken through the forward line. His judgment on punts was usually good, except for one occasion when the ball took an awkward bounce and failed to roll over the goal line as he had expected. On running back punts he was ineffective because he received practically no support in the way of interference...