Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...becomes apparent that someone is trying to start something. . . . Relative to the convention held at Minneapolis we have heard from seven of the members who have said they wanted our friendly relationship to continue. One of the members states it thusly: "We have not, do not, and will not support any action against COLLEGE HUMOR as passed by the convention of the MidWest Association. We have never had any but pleasant relations with COLLEGE HUMOR; we feel that you render us valuable service in opening up the college field to national advertisers; your pay checks for material used...
...representative government produced little but turmoil, riots and even assassinations on the floor of the legislative chamber. Those familiar with the past and present maps of Europe will remember that the Jugo-Slavian government has in addition at least one other "submerged nationality" to deal with, the Montenegrins, whose support of the Allied cause was rewarded by the loss of their independence at the Peace Conference...
...time when a class has attained its acme as an entity, is usually a financial success in spite of its nondescript social category. Like it, the Senior Spread comes at an advantageous time, and largely in its capacity as an entertainment for the Commencement crowd is assured of enough support to make it practicable. And, apropos a class dance, it is the question of practicability which should confront the Juniors as well as the Sophomores at this time. This might sound like heresy to those who base their arguments upon the social allurements of the proposed dance, but the desired...
While these promises will take at least a decade to perform, they are the most hopeful words officially spoken in Rumania since the War. They show, moreover, that the whole nation is solid in support of Boy King Mihai-or as Queen Marie calls him "Our Tender and Lovely Hope" (TIME, Nov. 26). Appropriately enough last week, King Mihai ignored his Parliament and played with trains-real trains. One locomotive with which he played was the first full-sized freight engine to be built entirely in Rumania. On the day after Parliament opened His Majesty was lifted into...
...pretty upsetting to the stand-patters. The philosophers who insist that place is only relative, after all, will hall a support. We live in a world of change, they tell us, but we hadn't expected such confirmation. Some of us will take the news with equanimity, content to act in what appears to be a moving picture, but there is always the small person who, told that Niagara Falls was eating its way backward, eventually to wash away a nearby village, wept, fearful for the safety of a cherished aunt in that village...