Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus is envisioned a shifting of the whole burden of British taxation so drastic as to seem epochal. Chancellor Churchill, beaming with confidence, announced that his program has the unanimous support of all members of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's Cabinet (Conservative). It is scheduled to come into effect as of Oct. i, 1929, with the passage of a series of bills, which the Cabinet expects to carry through Parliament before Christmas...
...founders of the Student Council probably intended that it should primarily be an organ of student government. But the days of student government, at Harvard certainly, are past. Students are too disorganized, too interested in their individual pursuits, intellectual or otherwise, to need or support any machinery of undergraduate government. Nor can the Student Council properly be regarded as a convenient instrument for the execution of faculty discipline. If the faculty is to pass judgment on any individual or group at Harvard, the students would much rather have it execute such judgment itself than through any group of undergraduates...
...name was Mulvehill and who also was born in New York, had seen to it that the boy went to a parochial school. At the father's death, he left school, having reached the eighth grade. Beside his mother he had a sister, two years his junior, to support. He earned $15 per week as a checker in the Fulton Fish Market. His mother covered umbrellas to help out. He checked fish for seven years, then worked in a Brooklyn pumping station...
When the Prime Minister was asked how such a statement could be squared with the Cabinet's support of the Votes For Flappers Bill, he frowned and brusquely replied: "If there has been an error of judgment on Lord Birkenhead's part, that is the worst that...
...energy that Millikan demonstrated in the cosmic ray (TIME, March 26). But the helium-nitrogen activity seems to be just the opposite. When helium and nitrogen collide and explode, forming oxygen and hydrogen, energy appears to be stored rather than given off. From this have arisen arguments which support the theory of Prof. Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin-that the earth has been built up by the aggregation of smaller bodies such as meteorites or planetesimals, in which energy has been stored...