Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very likely to cause a change in the membership of the Council, and will moreover probably result in a new method of electing its members. There is no student organization which can force the Council out of office, but it is doubtful whether that organization will be able to sustain the hostility of the undergraduate body...
Sixteen years ago a Socialist newspaper, The Call, was brought forth in Manhattan. It never flourished, but it managed to survive-for 16 years-on money contributions. It is estimated that nearly $1,000,000 was used to sustain its life by artificial respiration. On Oct. 1 of this year it changed hands. Several unions, notably a union of clothing workers, bought the paper. The pinko-progressive press hailed the change as an epoch in the annals of Labor and Journalism. But it seems that Labor is even less competent as a journalist than Socialism. The paper came too near...
...Purchase by the Government of wheat at $1.75 a bushel, or similar price, in order to sustain the market. This is advocated by some " radicals" of the wheat belt, but opposed by Secretary Wallace because it would tend to increase wheat production, thereby augmenting the existing evil of oversupply. Eventually the Government would have to dump the wheat back on the market or into...
...Farmers' Union decided to send a deputation to Premier Baldwin to lay before him the "deplorable state of British agriculture." It is hoped that the Government will aid in the work of rehabilitation. Farmers are faced with heavy losses on arable cultivation-losses which they cannot sustain unless the Government helps, said the President of the Union...
...trustees, having heard the other unfortunate professors, voted to sustain their discharge. Two dissenting votes were cast-one by Mr. Smith, one by Governor Peay...