Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harlow's 1937 model goes to play Navy with the sincere and even enthusiastic encouragement of the undergraduates. The near approach to victory at the end of last season instilled the germ of a feeling of support, as close to the word "spirit" as Harvard dares to come, into every fan. The hope began to be expressed that perhaps Harvard was on the verge of a renascence of football prestige. That hope has not died; it has not yet bad the chance to be tested, but will be pitted Saturday against the strength of a powerful Navy team. Although Harlow...
Over the dimpled, apple-laden hills of Yakima, Wash, some 30 years ago a sandy-haired boy with a pinched, earnest face used to peddle papers for the Yakima Daily Republic to help support his impoverished family.. Two months ago when this same boy, now a lean, tousle-haired lawyer of 39, was rumored to be in line for an important Government post, the Yakima daily Republic sourly headlined an editorial: "Yakima Not at Fault." Reason for the daily Republic's lack of enthusiasm over the possibility that William Orville Douglas might become chairman of the Securities & Exchange...
...finishing, college president of the student body, Beta Theta Pi, Phi Beta Kappa, he gave up graduate work to become an instructor at Yakima High School and support his family. After two years of saving he had $600. He resolved on an insurance selling venture, bungled it and lost all but $75. So he registered at Columbia Law School in Manhattan, expressed his trunk ahead, set out himself as "herder" for a shipment of sheep going to Chicago for slaughter...
...William Corcoran NIGHT AT HOGWALLOW- Theodore Strauss One of the scarcest forms of U. S. literature, the novelette until recently has been catalogued by U. S. publishers as a fiction, freak. To support this view, publishers could name on the fingers of one hand such lonely little albinos as Edith Wharton's Ethan Frame, Willa Gather's A Lost Lady, Christopher Morley's Where the Blue Begins. But since the appearance of such big white-headed boys as Anthony Adverse and Gone With The Wind, short novels have also climbed aboard best-seller lists (The Postman Always...
...background and business activity that identified him with conservative interests, he was a man of truly liberal spirit, and in no field of his activity was this more manifest than in his devoted service to the University as a member of the Corporation. He gave his complete support to the liberal policies of the University, including its maintenance of academic freedom under Presidents Eliot, Lowell, and Conant. In the counsels of the University he contributed a hard-headed common sense, often expressed in a picturesque vernacular, that presented issues in their clearest and simplest form and aided greatly in arriving...