Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is no evidence whatever to sustain such a statement. On the other hand, there has been an expansion in the volume of legitimate alcohol-using industries and, in addition, there have been a number of new alcohol-using industries established during the past four years...
Those colleges which limit their enrolment "in order to give a few students a better training" must in the end sustain a very heavy burden of proof; they select the best students, they say, but they retain the same teachers, and one fancies the instruction will remain much as before. I know colleges which have carried the "limiting" fever into the classes, and boast that they have improved the quality of their teaching because this or that course, which used to be open to anyone who elected it, is new strictly limited to twenty or fifteen. Well, it depends...
...Board of Trade, and a dirt farmer and cash grain merchant. Earlier in the year, in the belief that a natural bull market in grains was ahead, he bought corn options at 75 cents a bushel. Last May corn prices slumped badly and forced Cutten to buy heavily to sustain prices. But this proved a blessing in disguise, for bad weather injured the crop, and the scanty prospective supply rose in price in consequence. After predicting $1.00 corn, Cutten saw it sell...
...Monday came the ominous report that the patient was taking no nourishment; that William Gerry Morgan, Washington stomach specialist, had been called in consultation; that oxygen and hypodermic injections had been necessary to sustain life through the night...
...then, hungry for more, he beamed and added, "sound-and what else?" "Nothing else," said the critic. To date, Senator Fess's only reply has been a declaration that the episode has shown that "Wall Street" disliked his attitude on the bonus. Upon his sudden failure to sustain the President's veto, however, he has not commented...