Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost no one would want to move away; 2) "The transfer to Washington of the basic ideas concerning the economy has reduced the New York financier to the status of a highly paid clerk. ... It is scarcely a heroic role. And it is scarcely a role upon which to sustain-let alone increase-the power of a great city. If New York had never played a more creative role than this in the formation of the capital of the country, the city would never have become the thing...
...that the sum of approximately $1 from every inhabitant of the U. S., Canada, Great Britain and France, would sustain for six months or more the entire population described by Dr. John R. Mott. Surely the world...
...many writers can sustain a literary reputation on the strength of one short story. But for almost ten years that has been the achievement of Katherine Anne Porter. Probably no U. S. writer has been praised so highly while writing so little. The story that made her reputation was Flowering Judas, a sensitive, finely-grained piece of prose, but hardly a lifework in itself...
...portray the man as he really is, H. Gordon Garbedian, a science editor of the New York Times, has essayed in the first published biography of the life of this great mathematical genius. With a sweeping imagination which, although it tends to overdramatize prosaic details, never fails to sustain the reader's interest, the author unfolds an absorbing tale of a courageous fighter whose entire youth was a bitter battle against poverty and racial prejudice...
...sustain a suit against Branch No. 1 ("on behalf of itself and all its members"), as well as against President William Leader and three other union officers, Apex had to prove that union officials actually directed the strike. Apex's President William Meyer testified that after strikers had beat him, swart, big-beaked Bill Leader appeared and asked : "Now will you sign a closed shop agreement...