Word: supporting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...University of Chicago professors lifted their eyes from current strife for a glimpse at the future. "Planning in a democracy," declared venerable Political Scientist Charles Edward Merriam, "is a co-operative enterprise, requiring widespread sympathy and support, beyond party and beyond region. Business can block it; labor, agriculture, the middle class, can block it. But the danger then is that we drift away from planning, not into a blissful heaven of politics and economics, to live forever with golden harps, but to a point where force mounts the throne and writes a plan in blood and steel...
...Professor William King Gregory of Columbia tracing the evolution of the pelvis from fish to man, beginning with the fact that fish have hip-bones-rudimentary little rods unattached to the backbone but helping to support rear fins. Further improvement of the pelvis enabled amphibians to crawl, later animals to walk on all fours, humans and ortho-grade primates to walk upright. (Once possessors of good hips, whales reversed the process, lost most of the pelvis by taking to the water...
...report which Dean Hanford made to the President he enthusiastically backed up the latter's plan of awarding large scholarships to deserving Freshmen. It is policy that has long been advocated and the support it is being given in all quarters assures its success...
...hoped that these large scholarships will be increased in the number available and that some effort more about the applicants that their ability to get high grades. For the support of a plan that has been long needed Dean Hanford is showing an ability to appreciate the problems that confront needy students and at the same time is encouraging men of marked ability to enter Harvard...
...office, and that populace, in turn, is too easily swayed by such skilfully propagandizing institutions as the American Legion to use judgment in electing or rejecting its representatives. A shining hour of opportunity presents itself for Mr. Roosevelt. Most of the new majority in Congress were elected on a "Support Roosevelt" ticket. The President, if he is ever going to assume command, must do it now. He needs a Big Stick...