Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...splendid tradition the new Captain-elect steps into, and one difficult to sustain. But we congratulate Captain Hubbard of next year's team as a worthy successor to Captain Buell of the season past, and that is as high praise as it is possible to give...
...rest of the country perhaps it may seem absurd to bar a standard work like Webster; but New England as a whole and Boston in particular have a reputation to sustain. Law and Order, Liberty, and the Constitution have always found staunch support in the much maligned New England conscience. Other states may continue in their sordid ruts interpreting and tampering with the old traditions to suit their shifting advantages, but not so Massachusetts. Webster's is dangerous; the edict has gone forth; let it be abolished, even tho this mean Funk and Wagnall's, phonetic spelling and a thoro...
Vast changes lie ahead. Intelligence divines them. Creative thought strives to comprehend and forecast. It must of necessity sap the foundations of men's little systems-the very systems which they struggle to sustain by gifts of money...
...thousand channels open to him, thanks to the printing press. It is true no gaping crowds of docile youth are compelled to stop in the highways and by-ways to listen whether they will or not. But the modern doctor who a message will be heard and sustained outside academic walls. He may, if he looks too far ahead, suffer the martyr's fate. But, if he chooses the wiser method of teaching those things the multitude can hear, he may sustain himself without resort to the tender mercies of trustees, presidents; and bursars. His earnings may, indeed, be sufficient...
...Crimson team, developing slowly under the careful supervision of Coaches Claflin and Winsor, faced its first test on December 22 against St. Paul's school, Contrary to expectations the schoolboys failed to sustain their formidable reputation and were hopelessly outclassed by the University players...