Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Support of the idea and iteration of its financial impossibility at the present time sum up opinion on the subject from higher...
Meanwhile the campaign for unanimous support of music students on the petition goes on. Specifically the petition complains that music is so divided between the two buildings as to make access difficult, especially since the filing system in Harvard's main library is incomplete in this respect...
Nevertheless, they are un-pledged; nor is it by any means certain that the genial Kansan will be the national Republican choice next June. Borah is a definite possibility, as is Knox, and there is always that man named Hoover. Support of the President by his party, on the other hand, if casual, was at least certain, and if this is not the case at the Philadelphia convention, it will be most unusual. The obvious inference is that Massachusetts Republicans voted for Landon because he is the most in the limelight at the present moment, an uncertain reason at best...
...work in so far as he is concerned with the "man with the baton" and not with the men under him. An excellent chapter on, baton exhibitionism does much to "debunk" some popular fallacies as well as to expose certain audience-minded conductors and their tricks to catch popular support. That Leopold Stokowski's Polish accent is a fake, that one conductor wears a corset at every concert to improve his figure, and that a French conductor changes batons in mid-symphonic stream all makes very entertaining if not instructive reading. The book concludes with a fairly complete biographical guide...
...demand is already long overdue. It deserves the support of all men who have endured the humiliation of shuttling between Paine and Widener in search of music hopelessly divided between the two buildings; or who have failed even to obtain a glimpse of music whose habitat is known. For the Paine Hall "library" is often so overcrowded that no chairs or tables remain free, and the Janus of the door to the Widener stacks refuses free access to undergraduates...