Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true that "critics who believe that the U. S. is death to genius" have adduced in support of their argument the loneliness and despair that embittered Lafcadio Hearn's American days, but it is also true that Hearn did his best creative work (Chita, Youma, Stray Leaves, Some Chinese Ghosts, etc.) before he went to Japan. In technical excellence Hearn's Japanese writings never surpass, and are often inferior to, his earlier work; while even a cursory comparison of the two groups of writings will suffice to show that the Japanese period is marked by a constant waning...
...fancy that Koizumi, who "does not mention . . . that . . . Hearn was compelled to support 13 people on his small salary," also fails to mention that Hearn's salary at the Government college at Kumamoto was reduced soon after Hearn became a citizen of Japan-ostensibly because a "native" could not possibly be worth as much as a "foreigner...
...president of Yale-in-China, but Bob Hutchins might never have turned to Education if it had not been for beauteous Maude McVeigh. He was 22, penniless and wanted to be a lawyer, but a prep-school teaching job looked like the only way he could earn enough to support a wife. Like nearly all university presidents' wives, Maude Hutchins has been roundly criticized for snobbishness. Mrs. Hutchins, however, is a New Englander with a mind of her own. Scores of faculty folk have sat at her board but she figured out long ago that if she entertained...
...Thus gallons of blood may be accumulated from donors, kept in a refrigerator until needed for a transfusion. The other helpful procedure is venoclysis, the slow drop-by-drop introduction into a vein, through a hollow needle, of a salt or a sugar solution, which a patient needs to support his strength, to nourish or to cure him. A sterile container for such solutions, to be administered by venoclysis, is now a customary part of operating room equipment. If an operation is going to cause great loss of blood or dangerously sap a debilitated patient's vitality, a venoclysis...
...Shubert who has taken the "Muny" idea to Navin Field, Detroit. The new operetta was Teresina, a confection by Vienna's old Oscar Straus (Chocolate Soldier). At a cost of $25,000 two giant towers had been built to flank the big revolving stage, flood it with light, support an over-head bridge which provides more lights and potent amplifiers. In the background were the majestic twin oaks, so valued sentimentally that they-are heavily insured and dosed with castor oil to fend off old-age sickness...