Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Associate Justice lauded the three Eastern colleges for their support of this extra-curricular undertaking which he recognized as being "probably the first of its type in the country. Now that your Y-H-P conference, in completing its first three-year run, has proved of great value to the undergraduate bodies, I encourage you to set it up as an annual and traditional event. It carries with it the sympathy and support of many official residents of Washington working in those fields in which your interest is focussed...
...divided responsibility has resulted in conflicting expressions of opinion, on one hand by the executive committee, and on the other by the rest of the group, both of which were designated as the "official" stand of the Young Conservatives. Thus it was announced that they were in support of Franco and that they weren't, that they favored the Teacher's Oath and that they didn't, and yesterday that they both opposed and favored the appointment of Hicks, at one and the same time...
...Traffic Research Bureau has no close financial connections with the University. Its support comes almost entirely from the American Automobile Manufacturers' Association and the individual motor car companies, which pay the operational expenses and contribute the fellowships for study under the Bureau. At the most, Harvard furnishes a few facilities. Hence, the Bureau has no restraining obligations here, is perfectly free to leave whenever it so desires. Any debt which it owes to Harvard for publicity has been amply repaid in kind...
Leader Leuthold noticed that Mrs. Dorothy Clark, one of the party's two women, and Roy Varney, a veteran climber from Oregon City, were lagging, staggering. Varney said he could hardly see. Two Mazamas, themselves weak, were assigned to support each of them. Then Leader Leuthold broke a climbing rule-that an expedition's leader, like a sea captain, must follow all others out of trouble. He donned skis, tumbled, slid, rolled down to Timberline to fetch the snow tractor. At the lodge he found that the driver was miles away, the key lost...
...worries of male & female university freshmen, found that girls worried mainly over whether they were popular, that boys were afraid of being underweight, of not taking sufficient interest in their work, of not being able to meet their responsibilities or find financial security after graduation, of having to support their parents in old age. Two percent of the boys and 4% of the girls feared going insane. Three percent of the boys, none of the girls feared they were adopted children. About 10% in each sex were afraid of death. In general, the less intelligent freshmen worried more than their...