Word: sustainer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...economic aspects of this housing plan, there are one or two things which may have slipped even the nimble brains of the Party, First, will not the purchase of tenement land reduce the taxable area of the municipal government, causing it either to sustain a further loss on the investment or to plaster another burden on the rich and near rich which may impede the further burgeoning of the little buds of recovery which seem to be cropping up in the British Isles? Second, will not the costs of purchase, destruction, and reconstruction force a high rental, higher than slum...
...CADAVER of GIDEON WYCK- Edited by Alexander Laing-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Even readers who pay little attention to publishers' blurbs may find their hackles rising in pleasant anticipation when they spy on The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck's jacket: WARNING People unable to sustain violent shock are advised that they read this book on their own responsibility. AND THE PUBLISHERS REALLY MEAN THIS. The book read, their hackles relapse in disappointment. Though Editor Laing's anonymous tale starts off promisingly enough on horrifying tiptoe, it soon bumps down to the flat policeman tread of any cheerful murder...
...concerning public conditions that of necessity and duty it must know is entitled at least to great respect." But this statement furnishes us with no very definite rule for weighing the importance of the opinion of the legislature. It should be added, however, that the Court has refused to sustain a law on the ground that the emergency which made it constitutional had ceased to exist. (See Wolff v. Court of Ind. Relations, 262 U.S., 522 et alia...
...found that one of the floors in a room on the ground level had to be relaid three times before it was satisfactory. Each time more water seeped in causing the parquetry to swell and buckle necessitating new flooring. It is believed that the University had to sustain the expense of this unexpected repairing...
...When Chico is tried by Freedonia's supreme court, Groucho feels sorry for him. "This abject specimen . . ." he says. Says Chico: "I abject." When Freedonia finally gets into war, its armies are superior to those of most mythical kingdoms because they contain monkeys and elephants, but they sustain a shameful, shattering defeat...