Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fearful cost of modern warfare, those national powers which once insured victory for a people no longer avail. Valor and fortitude, however great, may win unaided skirmishes, but they may not win wars. The fullest resources of the nation in material must be gathered together to arm troops and sustain them during the long havoc-working months in the field. As example of this, if the constantly expected but unlikely sudden breakdown does occur in Germany, it will be not a breakdown of man power, but of material, of money, of national credit whereby individuals will cease to bear arms...
...power to legislate; (2) for the benefit of the parties in advising them as to the basis of their collective bargaining; and (3) for the benefit of the public, to enable them to determine their attitude toward each disputant, brings the Act within a principle which tends to sustain...
...have just received your telegram. The President has severed our diplomatic relations with Germany. He is entirely right in doing so. This is a measure demanded both by the honor and the safety of the United States. It is the first duty of every American to sustain the President in his action. If war should come it will be the duty of every man, young or old--a duty in which I know the men of Harvard will not fail--to do everything in his power to serve the country and to secure a victory in a contest which involves...
...Class of 1918 has its own reputation to sustain and the 19th of February, 'seventeen, should go down in memory & the unparalleled time when the Juniors entertained...
...absolutely certain summoned several engineers form New York and Philadelphia to Inspect the stadium. They verified the report that there was no structural weakness. In addition to this tests were made which indicates that the stands were capable of bearing as great a burden as they were planned to sustain when built...