Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Definite proof of the Planet Mars being uninhabited is shown by recent astronomical investigation according to Loring B. Andrews, instructor in Astronomy who spoke at a public "Open Nights" lecture at the Observatory last night. He revealed that recent evidence shows the atmosphere of the planet too slight to sustain life...
...becoming 13 o'clock; 10:30 p. m., 22:30. ¶Received from the Commission on Planets, Comets & Satellites a unanimous opinion that the atmosphere of Mars is less than 1% as rich in oxygen as Earth's air-insufficient to sustain "life as we know it." ¶Contemplated progress made on the naming of 2,000 minor planets circulating mostly between Mars and Jupiter and of which the largest is Ceres (diameter 480 mi.). ¶Heard the Commission on Meteorites strongly urge the Soviet Government to make further study of the Siberian fall of 1908, heaviest fall...
...businessmen still damn the New Deal as freely as ever-but not in impotent rage. Less than a year ago they were hysterically predicting the doom of the profit system. Now they ease their minds with forthright opposition to White House policies, count on the courts to sustain their objections and devote more thought to making and selling goods. But the most soothing influence on jittery business nerves has been profits...
...succession. For drastic Section 11 the House Interstate Commerce Committee substituted a milder regulatory measure, directing SEC to limit each holding company's operations to one integrated public-utility system. When a poll of House Democrats showed the Administration upward of 30 votes shy of a majority to sustain the Senate's action, President Roosevelt demanded a record vote on the House floor so he could see which Democrats were with him and which were against him. The House Rules Committee turned his request down flat...
...recommend, therefore, the enactment of legislation which will make clear that it is our fixed policy to continue to treat the bondholders of all our securities equally and uniformly, to afford any holder of any gold clause security, who thinks he could by any possibility sustain any loss in the future, an opportunity to put himself immediately in a position to avoid such future loss, and to remove all possibility of any suits designed to hamper the Government in administering the public debt...