Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stanley Banks began the moment his daughter Kay told him that she was engaged. " 'Well, to begin with,' he gasped a little hysterically, 'who the hell is this Buckley anyway, and where the hell does he come from-and who does he think is going to support him? If it's me he's got another guess coming. And who in God's name...
...lack of sales at Harvard was due to native publicity and advertising. We will agree that our advertising and publicity were somewhat weak due to the fact that our small committee had overextended itself and was handling far too much work: but we felt that some editorial support of this "fine idea" in the CRIMSON, which we did not have, would have gone a long way to help sell more cards...
...transportation," said Rickenbacker, "is suffering from too much coddling and wet-nursing. More regulation and paternalism are not the cure. The individual carriers need less artificial support, less shielding from the facts of life, and more exposure to the inexorable economic laws that apply to business in general." Rick, who pinches Eastern's pennies until Lincoln's beard hurts, thought the industry needed to "learn the homely virtues of thrift, economy and efficiency, and that one must work if he expects...
...other hand, young men in a weak department cannot be certain of such support. Thus, the fight of FBI and University tactics is strongest in the weak departments. Most young scholars say that some day they may want to teach...
...lined 52-acre campus across the East River from Manhattan, an able faculty of 225, some 3,000 students and no real worries about raising money. Since it was one of the four independent branches of the College of the City of New York,* it could count on handsome support from the taxpayers. Queens College's only real trouble was that for more than a year-ever since Dr. Paul Klapper resigned-it had not been able to find a president...