Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish to send a few words of appreciation. . . . The letter is not for publication-to publish it would do you more harm than good. I am of the lower class, and the support you should gain through my influence, among my crowd, would be a sorry bargain...
...Bedford, Mass., is a city of some 120,000 inhabitants. Ordinarily, it is a pleasant and prosperous city to live in. Dominating its industrial life, chief support of its storekeepers and its landlords, are, of course, its famed cotton textile mills. And since the War, New Bedford mills have done exceedingly well, declaring cash dividends of over $32,000,000, stock dividends of about half that sum. They employ 35,000 operatives. They produce a high grade of cloth, so high that they are virtually free from the competition of Southern mills...
...basic difference exists between the naval requirements of Great Britain and France. The Empire depends primarily upon surface craft to rule waves. The Republic must rely upon submarines to blow up such surface ships as approach her shores-because France has a huge army to support and cannot spare the cash to compete with Great Britain in surface warboats. Submarines, being the cheapest effective naval weapon of defense, are in high favor with the "coast-defensive"* navies of France...
...compelled by the Japanese to break his agreement, but was detained in his own capital, Mukden, by Japanese troops who clamped a censorship upon all means of communication. At this point the new Nationalist State, not yet recognized by any Great Power, stood badly in need of such moral support as could be given, for example, by the U. S. To a certain blatant U. S. newspaper publisher must go the credit for signing and publishing, last week, a superb, soaring overstatement of what was in the hearts of many U. S. friends of China, as follows: Give China...
...mosquitoes and established beyond dispute that yellow fever is transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes of the species Stegomyia fasciata. But the commission was unable to identify the germ. Since then there have been many attempts, many false alarms. Researcher Noguchi's Leptospira icteroides has received scientific support; has come closest to being accepted as the organism responsible for yellow fever. Survivor Agramonte was never satisfied with its credentials. Both before and after Noguchi's death by yellow fever he has pointed out the similarity between Noguchi's leptospira and the leptospira which causes Leptospiral Jaundice...