Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring of 1898, Spanish Admiral Pascual Cervera, handicapped by wretched ships, equipment and support, sailed his rusty little fleet of four cruisers and three destroyers across the Atlantic, straight through the operations centre of an over whelmingly superior U. S. fleet set to catch him, and safe into harbor at Santiago, Cuba without once sighting or being sighted by a U. S. warship. Navy censor ship hid that inglorious episode from the U, S. public, gagged war correspondents for another fortnight while the Navy made up its mind as to just where Cervera was. After Commodore Winfield Scott Schley...
President Conant's recent commentary on a shift away from the Classics and Romance Languages as fields of concentration found some support yesterday in University C's report on tentative 1940 concentration preferences...
...assistance of the Masters and the H.A.A., although it is true that a donor must be found if the system is to be brought to the perfection which it has attained at Yale. Even the daring step of a compulsory athletic fee, recommended by the Council, and the support of paid managers from the temporary student employment fund will not provide sufficient revenue. It seems doubtful whether the Houses will be able to scrape the pot for much more cash, but where there's a will, there's a way. The report indicates that the will exists, and the Council...
...such a fee, while the committee's action is "based on the belief that all undergraduates should exercise if possible. All men have to pay an infirmary fee, and we believe that more exercising would cut down the numbers requiring medical assistance". The $10 would form a just added support for the H.A.A...
...sentence--that Italy will not withdraw her troops while the war continues, and Premier Mussolini threw the switch in a statement at Rome instructing editors that Italy will not permit the government forces to prevail. Such an attitude by one country makes impossible any attempt to check effectively the support others are giving to the war. Once it was hoped that the bloodshed in Spain could be lessened by the withdrawal of foreign soldiers, a hope now almost dead. There remains as a method of relieving the situation only the stopping of the war itself...