Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prolific pigeon. For years these delightful little feathered friends of men have lived and died, loved, wooed and wed, eaten our peanuts, gotten under our feet, and played the "scenic" role, protected not persecuted. Now it seems they are grown too numerous for their visible means of support and are doomed to death by starvation or a worse-than-death existence with enforced birth control. The method is simple. Once lured within specially constructed shelters wherein they will be persuaded to nest, the rest is left to the cruelty of man. A squad of attendants will follow the unsuspecting birds...
...proletarian army to the conquest of half of China (TIME, Dec. 13, 1926). The partial collapse of that avowedly revolutionary movement and its diversion into a moderate and narrower channel resulted, last week, in the whistling of a new tune by Marshal Chiang. Obviously he was bidding for support by the rich merchant class when he said...
Whether one likes it or not, there seems to be no gainsaying the fact that Harvard depends for her existence and development upon the support of her graduates, both those of the College and those of the professional schools, come impossible, to give these men two seats for the Yale game. Perhaps they With a Stadium seating less than 80,000 it is now impossible or will soon be-are unreasonable, perhaps they should forego their desires for the sake of saving a beautiful structure and for the sake of rendering football at Harvard wholly beyond the reach of even...
...only such action as this, that can make an unlimited number of terms undesirable. As long as the people can exercise unimpeded their right to choose the, executive, it is their prerogative to support a man of great constructive ability, if any shall appear, until the need for him no longer exists. But if the legislative body, in formal session, is to thus pass resolutions against an individual candidate, the fear at once arises that a powerful administration could keep its leader indefinitely. Such, indeed, is the procedure in England, but it is efficient because the governing functions...
...college influence. In the optimistic belief that virtue eventually triumphs, this wearisome distortion by persons seldom qualified to speak, can be no great source of alarm. But concentrated on Smith College which has been singularly and blamelessly unfortunate in the associations gathered to its name, even with the loyal support of the alumnae, it does represent a most unjust and severe persecution...