Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facts are that when Mr. Hughes came into California, Governor Hiram W. Johnson was then Governor of the state and the republican candidate for U. S. Senator. He had previously issued a political statement urging the election of Mr. Hughes and the giving of support to him by progressives of California. Unfortunately, Mr. Hughes permitted himself to be entirely surrounded upon his arrival in California, by political enemies of Governor Johnson, who would not permit Mr. Hughes to meet Governor Johnson, and who did not and would not invite him to preside or speak at any of the big meetings...
...significance and power. Chinese know that the largest private army in the world-150,000 men-is maintained by Feng Yu-hsiang, and that he has inspired his soldiers to a remarkable degree with his own austere strength. Each soldier has been taught a trade. The whole army can support itself indefinitely upon the Chinese countryside in Liberty, Frugality, Fraternity...
...this football rally it is customary for all Yale undergraduates to yell and cheer. This year, however, only 500 were gathered together in the name of Yale. President James Rowland Angell, having campaigned so vigorously and with such notable success for Herbert Hoover, apparently supposed that his moral support might also take happy effect upon the football team. "The bigger they come, the harder they fall," he said. Then Tad Jones, onetime Yale coach, spoke scornfully of the decline of the Yale spirit and the growth of wisdom. With tears in his eyes he described the undergraduates who were...
...expected from research of this kind unless it is carried on for years", Dr. Cobb stated. "Therefore the promotion of a permanent commission is a most important advance. Funds must be raised to carry on the investigations. At present about $10,000 a year is needed, but if generous support is given the scope of the work can be enlarged greatly...
...addition, it was also reported, Professor W. R. Vance of the Yale Law School, will enter into debate with E. A. Hausman 3L on a question of compulsory insurance. The subject of this contest of words will be: "Resolved, That compulsory insurance be enacted." Professor Vance will support the proposition and Hausman, a graduate of Princeton, will oppose this stand. Hausman has been called the undefeated intercollegiate debating champion of America...