Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writer that embraced in Admiral Cervera's squadron, were four armored cruisers each more heavily gunned than any vessels of the corresponding type in the U. S. Navy and of almost equal speed. These are the fine vessels that the writer contemptuously refers to:-"wretched ships, equipment and support, sailed his rusty little fleet of four cruisers and three destroyers across the Atlantic...
...Morgan took to Havana the draft of a speedily contrived plan whereby the Chase would do for Cuba what Cuban American proposed to do as a bank of issue, thus retaining for the Chase its dominant position. Further to checkmate the Chase, Promoter Greñas had the support of the Asociación National de Acreedores del Estado, organized and fostered by him, composed of some 75,000 native creditors of the Cuban state-chiefly veterans, civil servants, teachers, small bondholders. The Asociación could be counted on to oppose any Chase payoff before their claims were...
...made a monofilm of the virus and then transferred the film to a glass plate where its thickness could be measured, he found that the molecule had flattened out like a pancake and that the film was 15 times thinner than the spherical diameter of one molecule. "This lends support to a theory," said he, "which has recently been advanced that all proteins tend to spread out on surfaces and when they do so they all have a similar lacelike pattern...
...Ithacans, meanwhile, were touching Ed Ingalls for 10 hits, but beautiful support, particularly from Mal McTernan and Jim Sullivan in the outfield, kept their runs down...
John Woodward pitched a nice game, limiting the opposition to eight hits, but the support from his teammates was negligible...