Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wages or for other reasons, has been cut by 30 percent of its former total; we may say, for argument's sake, that the said family will try to get along with the new means of budget by dispensing with the outlay of comparatively unnecessary things, in order to sustain the lives of the family...
...little more than other industrial institutions. There are, however, fundamental differences which affect the analogy. In the first place, the railroads are public utilities which must operate whether they pay or not. An industrial concern may shut down if the losses thereby occasioned are less than those which it sustains under operation in these subnormal times. In the second place, the typical industrial concern made abnormal profits during the war and so gained a surplus to carry it over the lean years. The railroads, on the other hand, have no war fat to sustain them during the reconstruction period...
Football, hockey and baseball contests, where team play is involved, in general, sustain the interest of spectators more than track. When properly managed track meets arouse great enthusiasm such as has been often manifested at the Intercollegiate and Olympic Games...
...wicked love and murder by the jealous spirit of his wife's first husband--is due rather to the author's technique than to any special merit in the merit itself. It is the touches of realism and the excellent protrayal of the characters of these Castilian peasants, that sustain belief in the actuality of the story...
Should we not pity those whose uninitiate hands can mould less than the fragment of their visions; encourage and sustain, that their hands shall more firmly hold the chisel which may carve from witless stone an inspiration for our posterity...