Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Explaining that he got up at 5 o'clock every morning while some of his neighbors slept until 10, Walter Pippel snorted: "Here in Matanuska the man who does is supposed to help support the man who does not. To the best of my knowledge, there is only one country in the world dedicated to that principle...
...these directions: pay his surviving sister $10,000 yearly; provide varying fixed incomes for his five adopted daughters; buy Adopted Daughter and Airwoman Sahiba Gokcen a house; see that the two children of President Ismet Inönü, the ghazi's successor, get the best possible education; support the Society for Promulgation of the Turkish Language and History, Atatürk's pet hobby...
...York City College's Dr. Ernest Victor Hollis, author of Philanthropic Foundations and Higher Education (Columbia University Press) told eastern university business officers in Pittsburgh this week that the trend is toward a broader base of college support. Most colleges, if they are to survive, said he, will in future have to depend on 1) tax funds or 2) numerous modest gifts from tax-evaders...
...Philadelphia, for more than ten years, Mrs. Elka Abrams worked day & night to support five children. Husky, hungry Mrs. Abrams weighed 200 lb.. habitually dined on bread and potatoes, for they were cheap and filling. But not all human machines can burn such excessive quantities of starchy fuel as Elka Abrams stowed away and by the time she was 55 Mrs. Abrams was a victim of advanced diabetes. Fortnight ago, having shrunk to half her former size, she slipped into a diabetic coma, was bundled out of her house by police and rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital...
Last week a group in Claverly with difficulty organized a basketball team, reputedly obtaining the support of thirty men. With more difficulty they wormed a way into the intramural system, although their success was qualified by the refusal to place them as the ninth team in the league. Mr. Samborski pointed out that his tight, House athletic budget could not care for an additional manager, so that Claverly's team would be able to practice only...