Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposite points of view which could not be reconciled. The four other members of the committee took the view that where the office of chairman is not specified on the ballot, a legally elected body has a right to select its chairman by its own vote. They adduced in support of this view a precedent of at least three years immediately preceding 1925, where this was done. My point of view was based on a four years precedent, namely that the person receiving the highest number of votes should become chairman...
With almost three years of a busy and hectic life behind him and still no signs of gray hairs or rheumatism, the Vagabond has begun to feel that some sort of spirit of eternal youth has come to his support. Ashamed as he may be of such indications of immaturity at most times of the year, the holiday season now in full swing makes him completely at home...
...state. So, astutely he gave his inaugural address last week a utilitarian tone: "This institution is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. Like an industrial agent, it is evaluated in terms of its yield. It deserves and can rightfully claim the .united support of thoughtful citizens on the ground of its educational service. . . . Build the University into the life of the state." That was a parody of Cornell's byword, where President Turner once taught: "Build yourself into Cornell...
...Support. Agreement with the conclusions of Dr. Gore and his associates was urged on Episcopalians of the "Catholic" or "high church" type* by Rev. William A. Nichols of the Church of the Ascension, Brooklyn. Said he: "At the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church, thought by some to be too 'high,' it has been taught for two decades that the Old Testament consists of myths, 'literature,' history and allegory...
Years later Grant flattered himself that he too was a Wall Street potentate, only to learn in tragic finale that again he had been duped, used, ruined. Yet, under stress of terrific pain (cancer) his pathetic persistence in scribbling memoirs that would support his widow is the courageous characteristic that well overshadows faults and stupidities...