Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general principles I approve wholeheartedly of your editorial concerning the unfair discrimination against the crew during spring vacation: namely, the fact that they had to sustain themselves while staying here in Cambridge for practice...
...Cardinal is one of those novels that may have the undesired effect of cheapening a fair cause. In this instance the cause is the right of the Catholic Church to teach and sustain Christianity in its own way. To some extent. The Cardinal is an outright, often vigorous pro-church tract that ploddingly touches on nearly everything from birth control to Author Robinson's view of the church's view on separation of church and state. But the author has included so many banal fictional tricks that both tract and story quickly reach a sustained level of stupendous...
...worth of insurance dividends to veterans will sustain the demand for goods for some months, Slichter said. The present large volume of construction and heavy demand for automobiles will also bolster production and employment for a time...
...last month in the London Tribune. He had written: "All the nightmare aspects of the Soviet regime really stem from the gigantic error of having maintained, by brute force, far too highly developed an economy among a population the relative maturity of which was totally inadequate to sustain...
...first place, it is too long, running a little over two hours. The action contained in the story cannot possibly sustain it for such length. In the second place, it contains a series of lush scenes, depicting people fondling jewels and purchasing bolts of cloth, which have only the remotest connection with the plot and are in themselves boring and trite. In the third place, the characters insist upon talking in some sort of Biblical patois, a bastard St. James version of English, which succeeds only in producing considerable confusion and some ludicrous metaphors. In the fourth place, the acting...