Word: supports
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York's dapper, smart-cracking Mayor James John Walker, between whom and Mr. Smith little love is left, gave his support to the district leaders. Mr. Curry's election followed. Said Boss Curry: "It's the same old Tammany. ... I have always been opposed to vice and gambling...
...Comrade Litvinov could not resist a temptation to cry the equivalent of "Copy cat!" last week, a most unwise thing to do because the Soviet Government is now making every effort to get itself recognized by President Hoover. "I scarcely know,'' said Litvinov scathingly, "whether Mr. Gibson spoke in support of my plan or in spite...
...from ridiculing Marion, Editor Anderson's friends have succumbed to his civic zeal. They have read, for example, his editorials exhorting Marion to support its Kiwanis band. Marion was flattered when Manhattan's great Otto Hermann Kahn, no Kiwanian, sent a check...
...slotted wing is his device. When the ordinary airplane rises at too sharp an angle with the ground, air, which must stream sucking over the wings to support them, cannot reach enough wing surface to do its work. Consequently the plane loses flying speed. It stalls. Then it drops. The Handley Page wing contains a long narrow auxiliary wing set in its forward edge. When the main wing reaches the stalling angle, the auxiliary flaps up and suddenly presents a new surface to the wind. The wind also rushes through the space between the auxiliary and main wings. The result...
...situation in regard to the H. A. A. surplus has not been much clarified by the recent statement from University Hall that the Corporation has "no intention of acquiring a ten million dollar endowment fund for the support of athletics." Out of a host of possibilities one is withdrawn. The present surplus may be allowed to accumulate to an indefinite size and for no purpose at all as far as one can tell from the Delphic utterance of the authorities...