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Word: supportable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That is why we must follow a policy exclusively and entirely Belgian. The policy must aim solely at placing us outside the quarrels of our neighbors. It corresponds to our national ideal. It can be maintained by a reasonable military and financial effort, and it would command the support of all the Belgians, who are inspired by an intense and basic desire for peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Nobody's Satellite | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...convention came out flat-footedly against "spiritually destructive methods of raising money," such as church card parties and dances, by approving the American Missions Board's decision to withdraw support from 575 mission churches if they persist in so raising funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lutherans in Columbus | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...York City's Health Commissioner John Levi Rice, who does more than any other municipal health officer to support the Parran campaign, last week revealed another new method in the U. S. fight against venereal disease. The 827 municipal clinics throughout the U. S. where venereals may receive free or cheap treatment, get only a fraction of the victims. Of the rest, some do not know that they are infected, while the rest shamefacedly sneak to quacks, urologists, and skin specialists. Henceforth the 14,000 doctors of New York City are to function as "shock troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Great Pox | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

Last week Elizabeth Smith's account of her labor and infanticide sounded true to a psychiatrist and an obstetrician, who appeared in court to support the defense's contention that the girl: 1) could have had a baby under the extraordinary circumstances she described and 2) would scarcely have known what she was doing for 18 hours afterward. A murder trial jury of twelve men, however, could not quite believe the whole of Elizabeth's tale. If she had not intended to have her child die, why had she not prepared a layette of some sort? Largely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Trouble | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...over what they regarded as one more failure of private capital to cope with the social and economic problems of Negroes. From the beginning the Dunbar Apartments rocked precariously on deep tremors of Negro sensitiveness. Rentals were planned at $9 per room per month, to enable Negro workers to support their families without doubling up in the usual Harlem manner of two or three families to an apartment. The rooms were small, the construction poor. To meet maintenance and amortization charges the rents were finally set at $11.50 to $17.50 per month per room. Consequence was that Dunbar residents came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Rockefeller Apartments | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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