Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family (who said her lover was "the Emperor of Germany") she set up in gaudy splendor in Spain, ran open house for them in her villas all over Europe. She continued to support her first husband, making no bones about it; nor about her occasional affairs on the side. For his part, Lionel made no secret of Pepita. Ample tribute to his diplomatic finesse is that he "managed to keep Pepita as his mistress and Queen Victoria as his employer concurrently for nearly twenty years." When Pepita died in childbirth at 40 she left five children. Queen Victoria...
...Department of Technical Research at the Fogg Art Museum, and John S. Thatcher, Assistant Director of the same museum announced yesterday that the cross on Bishop Lawrence's chest in his portrait in Leverett dining hall is caused by variations in the moisture content of the paint and the support...
...Alternate condensation on the wall and drying from the radiator below would cause a wide variation in the moisture content of the paint and support. Those parts of the canvas and the paint film next the stretcher piece would have a steady moistness...
Cheering last week for the expected victory of the Stalin regime at the polls was Premier Prince Konoye of Japan. "If the results of the Russian election support the regime, trouble will not occur," beamed the Prince. "But if Stalin is upset it is impossible to say what may happen." Despite constant Soviet & Communist press uproar against "Fascist Japan," the Prince seemed confident that such help as thrifty Stalin gives China will be as inadequate as that he has given the Spanish Leftists. Soviet bombers arrived in China in considerable numbers and went into action last week...
Miss Ware left a fund of $300,000 to support Rudolph Blaschka and his wife, to preserve the collection, and to pay the museum staff...