Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese department of Shantung Institute, is inactive now since the closing of the University in October. Although many of the teachers left Tsinan at this time it has been announced that the Institute's support will be available for the University when it reopens...
...main Chinese university which receives support from the Institute is Yenching University in Peiping which is considered the outstanding Chinese university. Many of its graduates come here to get their doctorate degrees, it turning afterwards to teach in China Besides its work in history and archaeology important work has been done in compiling indices to ancient Chinese books, 28 volumes of which have already been published...
...wall refuses to tumble into the cellar. Outside, on Kosciusko Square, dozens of spectators gape at the crumbling magnificence that is about to be. John sees the trouble is that the cable is pulling at the side of a short but fat pillar which used to support the basketball floor...
Lopez' crusade had the enthusiastic support of D. A. R. President-General Mrs. William A. Becker. But Mrs. Reuben Ross Holloway, prominent anti-nudist, who helped to make the Star-Spangled Banner the official as well as actual national anthem, was scandalized, threatened to picket the theatre...
...journalism, the demoniac James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald was the most reckless, the most imaginative. Before he was 30 he had sent H. M. Stanley to Africa with blunt orders to find Livingstone. For circulation's sake he sent out scientific expeditions, wangled government support for his journalistic adventures and launched balloon races that started as many as 50 gas bags blowing wildly over the U. S. Nobody knows what wires Bennett pulled in Rutherford Hayes's Administration to persuade the U. S. Navy to back the terrible attempt of the Herald to find...