Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Captain Hates The Sea," makes us wonder how we ever withstood the lewd sallies of Will Housen movies. Leon Errol, Alison Skipworth, Helen Vinson, Victor McLaglen, and John Gilbert make up an able cast. The captain's uncanny urge to dip beards into soup by pushing the elbows that support them adds a tenseness which is truly genuine. The head steward aware of this weakness forces a passenger to sit next to the captain who provides him with the beard-elbow-soup combination which he is unable to resist. John Gilbert, an inebriate in love with a girl back...
...Admitting, then the necessity of saving face, we must play the big leaguers. And there is only one prerequisite to that necessity. We must be able to play them so that our men will not be slaughtered and so that our spectators will continue to pay money for the support of other athletic activities not so profitable, for the sake of the student body, collectively and individually. In order to play them in this capacity, we must have earlier practice, longer practice, better coaching, and less interference and puerile idealism from the H.A.A. Not only is this the only honest...
...this time, when Germany most needs the support of the world, France is busying herself building cement trenches and machine gun nests on her frontier, and supporting a fleet of 5,000 military planes in deadly fear that Germany is secretly preparing for war. And yet it is only the politicians and newspapers of Paris that seem to fear and imagine this war, for again and again in the frontier provinces," Mr. Villard said. "I have found the peasants and towns people in perfectly friendly relations with the Germans...
...reason pointed for battle with Rome. Although he was the subject of almost universal adulation Erasmus' life is in essence tragic. His unwillingness to partake of struggle, his profound hatred of violence prevented him from taking sides when all of Europe was madly partisan. Both parties wanted his support but he could not give himself up to partisanship, for his ideal was utterly sixteenth century humanistic--all of mankind was to be united in the common aim of betterment through knowledge, reason, and a belief in man's ability to progress. No longer could a retiring scholar take the lead...
Preliminary returns from the questionnaire indicate that the commuters are in full sympathy with the undertaking and will be able to give it the necessary financial support...