Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world press partly discovered and partly created a new hero last week. His very stature is heroic-six feet six-and his broad shoulders support a massive head crowned impressively with snowy hair. As the representative of the British Empire, he strode into the Glass Room of the League of Nations, at Geneva, and delivered a speech which was soon compared to the great orations of Cicero...
...anti-American party in Nicaragua was scheming to embarrass the U. S. by making the latter's "pacification" program seem more illegal than ever. Since the Nicaraguan election does not come until October, the immediate necessity for 1,000 more marines at Managua was obscure, except as moral support for the Administration's policy...
...Millikan cautions against rash constructions. The experiments are not yet completed and much remains to be proved, but he admits these discoveries to be the first indications that elements are being continually created from electrons. Support for this hypothesis can be found on all sides. On the side of the sun, for instance, there is an extraordinary abundance of both hydrogen and helium. What is more plausible than that the one should be created from the other? On the side of physics, there are no other nuclear changes which could take place, as far as science knows now, that would...
...three Runcimans are liberal M.P.'s. Son Runciman usually takes his seat next to that of Liberal Leader David Lloyd George. Wife Runciman delivered herself during her campaign of the following oracle: "I will always support David Lloyd George so long as he remains a Liberal." Her reference was, of course, to the possibility that Mr. Lloyd George might lead his Liberals into the Labor fold...
...Nevertheless, that is no reason why our descendants should not exist. Perhaps the earth will be unable to support quite so many people as now, perhaps fewer will want to live on it. Mankind, three million times as old, may be three million times as wise...