Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Diplomat Grew's sporting proclivities serve him well in Tokyo. He is a baseball fiend; so are the Japanese. His faculty for golfing in dignity and black shorts necessarily appeals to a people to whom dignity is everything. His impressively good clothes, grey hair, dark mustache, lithe frame support a slightly British aura of raj, accompanied by a Yankee capacity for work. He drives his embassy staff seven hours a day (a frightful stint for the Foreign Service). Many an Ambassador lets his staff do the handwork. Joe Grew peck-types his own reports, producing documents highly respected...
Feild's dismissal symbolizes the stagnation of a once progressive arm of the University. From the outset student opinion has been nearly unanimous in his support. Eighty per cent of the undergraduate concentrators in Fine Arts petitioned the Administration to reinstate him. But not a word of explanation, let alone any hint that the request might be granted, has been heard in the Fogg Museum or University Hall. Probably this plea too, will fall on deaf ears...
Claiming the support of the Faculty as a whole, Mr. Conant should be able to see in the future a new flowering in all the departments of the College. Increased security undoubtedly will spike scholarly inhibitions and will produce a livening influence into even the most stolid of them. And this in turn will be related through the introduction of new methods into the undergraduates themselves, which after all, is quite an important consideration...
...public at large, barbaric and obscure. During those years two rich and modest women, Nelson Rockefeller's mother and her friend, the late Lillie Plummer Bliss, quietly bought whatever modern works they enjoyed, quietly deplored the fact that the art of living men received little or no institutional support in Manhattan. In the late spring of 1929 they and one or two other liberal ladies laid plans for a new museum. To head their organizing committee they chose A. Conger Goodyear, a solid, sensitive industrialist (lumber) with practical experience as a trustee of Buffalo's Albright Art Gallery...
Under the presidency of J. Raymond Walsh, whose dismissal two years ago drew protests from liberals all over the country, the Union's first year and a half of existence had been principally devoted to national and state support of organized labor...