Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minute inspection failed to disclose any evidence, not even a feather, to support the contention that the white man's contraption might be able...
...does not have at least an inkling in his mind of what the major teams are doing. And for this reason it seems not unnatural that sports like swimming and basketball should be promoted to major status as soon as they show that they have behind them the support of the undergraduate body...
...preserve the balance of the H.A.A.'s budget, the University has supplied some six thousand dollars to meet the expenses of the new program of rigid organization for intra-mural inter-house athletics. Since the University already supplies about twenty-five thousand dollars annually to the support of the Freshman compulsory exercises, it is now inaugurating nothing new, but merely extending its policy of paying for the beneficial gymnastics of the team athletes...
...vacation amusement and in the line of strenuous and healthy exercise all the year round. Great municipal beaches have developed near the centers of population on both seaboards to take care of the demand which could not be satisfied by private watering-places, and the support of the Olympic swimming team by the public gave striking evidence last summer to the fact that swimming has become an established American institution...
With great earnestness, no sense of humor, an entirely undisciplined style Evelyn Scott attempted to raise from the dead the following peacefully slumbering corpse: how shall a second-rate writer support a wife, two children and his own self-respect during an economic depression? Though Evelyn Scott lists herself with the great minority of Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Dostoievsky, Tolstoy, few readers will count her their equal. While they may give her solemn approbation for her attempt "to convey something of the nightmare negation of the human by the machine," they will close her book without much fellow feeling...