Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Writing in Collier's a fortnight ago about the meeting last winter at French Lick, Ind., where the Scripps-Howard editors voted unanimously to support Hoover, Chairman Roy Howard of the Scripps-Howard board of directors said: "The average age of the 26 men was just a trifle over 30 years...
...magnetic and friendly smile. With a few courteous sentences the host reassured his guests. He had called them in, he said, not to deprive them of their livelihood, but to dispel the false impression that the Italian press is not free, and to call upon them for industrious, intelligent support during the Italian electoral campaign of next Spring...
...audience shifted in their seats. On the platform back of him a dozen foreign surgeon-guests looked inquisitive, puzzled, amused. All waited for Dr. Martin to support his statement with statistics; he supplied none. After the day's session the surgeons buzzed at each other with pompous cynicism. Quotable comments...
...Navy serve. That is "shipmate stuff" and can hardly be discusses here. It has no bearing on the larger issue. In fact, to a certain extent it simplifies the problem of partisanship, for under the present circumstances, as in later life, the Navy man may give his unqualified support to his Army brother whenever he sallies forth upon the field of glory...
...most of the men who join it. In view of this fact it can find little justification in regulating its membership according to ordinary club rules. Mr. Stone, graduate secretary of the Union, whose communication regarding this question is printed elsewhere in these columns, reveals the strongest reason in support of the Union's present practice, when he says that under other conditions, the membership rolls would show a large in the minds of the Union management; they can make but little impression on the mind of the student who thinking, however erroneously, his relations with the Union automatically severed...