Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cincinnati's radio station WLW there works a smallish, bespectacled man of 55 who plays the great tuba without ever huffing, puffing or straining himself red for breath. He is James Austin Houston, only U.S. tubaman who, despite mediocre diaphragm development, can perfectly sustain a note for 20 measures, make tuba music which could be represented graphically by a long, unbroken line instead of by telegraphic dots and dashes. Last week Tubaman Houston's secret became known: He uses a German wind-saving contrivance called an "aerophor" which cost...
...faults of the present lecture system constitute a vicious circle. Either a lecture is what it is ideally supposed to be--namely, and attempt to arouse, sustain, and direct the student's interest in the subject under consideration-- in which case the mechanical operation of taking notes distracts attention to the extent of counteracting that ideal; or else the lecture is a more runningfire of lifeless facts, and hence a use of time which might better be spent in the reading of some reliable text-book. Naturally, a lecture must embody the elemental facts of its subject, but these facts...
...revisionings, it was to become the office of an equally inordinate imagination in the end to turn them, in restitution, to another account ? to select, to reshape, to interpret every adaptable passage in the history of her house, first to foster an extraordinary wish, and at last to sustain a strange unearthly hope...
...raining." Defenders of Governor Horton argued that the attempt at impeachment was "nothing more or less than a political conspiracy to overthrow the State government and seize its reins by a few ambitious men." They insisted no specific wrong-doing was charged against him, no positive evidence adduced to sustain the general charge. When the House finally voted (58-10-41) to dismiss Impeachment Article No. 1, the capitol at Nashville thundered with cheers and applause...
Finance is the first obstacle which has been engaging much of the attention and energy of Stanley High for the past year. Some $6,000,000 or $7,000,000 must be within sight before action is taken. But, according to Editor High, the paper must sustain itself on its own merits or it will be abandoned...