Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twelve hours later his men were beaten back with heavy losses. Next day was spent in wary shadow-boxing on both sides. Haile Selassie formed his Imperial Guard on Chessad Ezba, a mountain eight miles from Lake Ashangi, spread his support on surrounding peaks. Marshal Badoglio had assembled 200 bombing and pursuit planes. He had Alpini and Sabauda Divisions facing the Ethiopian Guard and was able, after an amazing forced march, to whip another division of leather-footed Eritrean native troops along Haile Selassie's right flank...
Festooned with a maze of cables, wires, tanks, cylinders, hand-wheels, steel support frames bolted to the ceiling, a control board studded with dials, the underground laboratory looked something like the inside of a submarine. The Svedberg centrifuge's 7-in. disk rotates at 60,000 r.p.m., has a peripheral speed of about 24 miles a minute, one-third greater than that of Earth at the Equator. Particles whirled at that rate are subjected to a force 250,000 times that of gravity. In short spurts the centrifuge can rotate up to 160,000 r.p.m., exaggerating gravity...
...year out of golf by an exhibition tour, appearances in cinema. Now 25, Little left Stanford last autumn without completing his senior year. Two months ago he married 1 8-year-old Dorothy Hurd of Chicago. His reason for last week's move: "You can't support a wife on gold medals...
Proclaiming his inalienable right to withdraw his registration so long as it had not become effective, Oil Royalist Jones finally found support for his contention last week. Said Justice Sutherland in a 6-to-3 decision: ''We are unable to see how any right of the general public can be affected by the withdrawal of such an application before it has gone into effect. . . . The conclusion seems inevitable that an abandonment of the application was of no concern to anyone except the registrant. . . . The Commission itself had challenged the integrity of the registration statement and invited the registrant...
...action of the Commission finds no support in right, principle or in law. It is wholly unreasonable and arbitrary. It violates the cardinal precept upon which the constitutional safeguards of personal liberty ultimately rest-that this shall be a government of laws. . . . Arbitrary power and the rule of the Constitution cannot both exist. They are antagonistic and incompatible forces; and one or the other must of necessity perish whenever they are brought into conflict...