Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canada for the U. S., a country where the servant was worthy of his hire and where advantage was taken of every opportunity. He closed his speech on a note personal to himself-the inadequate salaries paid Canadian professors. He could not possibly carry on his own work and support his family, did not his relatives help him with money. Charles Stewart, Canadian Minister of the Interior, replied softly and noncommittally to Professor M'Lennan's exhortations, thanked him for the ideas, hoped that public opinion would rally behind such men and reward them according to their true...
...receiving the plaudits of students and educators in other universities. From the approbation of President Little of Michigan to tributes from undergraduate editors, the praise ranges--and at the bottom of all is a fundamental laudation to the university which is sufficiently interested in varied topics and studies to support such a feature as the daily publication of a Vagabond...
Actor Campbell Gullan performs notably as the jealous huband exercising his shoddy, maniacal little power over the frightened girl. His support lends much point to that baffled breathlessness, that twitching of the limbs and lips, that broken laughter and word-fumbling by which Miss Lord intensifies hopelessness. O. P. Heggie, with pursed smile, elusive spectacles and amiable absentmindedness, is her dreamy father. In the epilog, kept at opposite ends of a bare table by her prison's regulations, they still try to pretend to gether, try to laugh "that such a thing should happen to people like...
...simply to get the money to keep a maid. John E. O'Connor, President of the Board, objected to retaining in the school system women whose husbands received salaries of from $3,000 to $5,000 because their positions should belong to women who had no one to support them...
...cigars; a tray; an oak board for slicing fruit; a musical attachment designed to play certain tunes. This machine-the "Baker Bar-ette"-is usually made with a red-lacquer finish. Some are equipped with the heads & tails of animals (cock, horse, dog) sticking out at either end, to support the leaves which, when folded, cover the box, and, when unfolded, serve as a depository for used glasses...