Word: sustainer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ocean mail contracts. ¶ Received a report from its Military Affairs Committee on the purchase of 200,000 kits at $1.40 each for the Civilian Conservation Corps after supersalesman Richard B. Bevier had visited Roosevelt Secretary Louis McHenry Howe. Said the report: "We find no evidence that would sustain a charge of corruption or improper motive. However we find that lower prices could have been obtained for articles of a quality sufficient to meet all requirements...
...does not consider himself one. With the publication of Last Poems (1922) he announced: "It is not likely that I shall ever be impelled to write much more. I can no longer expect to be revisited by the continuous excitement under which ... I wrote . . . nor indeed could I well sustain it if it came." He has had two rides on Pegasus; he wants no more. This abrupt reverence would be a rare phenomenon in any day. Anything Poet Housman had to say would carry authority to a multitude of readers. Few years ago, in answer to a U. S. request...
Like the African lung fish, the climbing perch is a specialist. Living in hot, often foul, water holes, it has developed a sort of auxiliary "lung" (labyrinth) that enables it to utilize atmospheric air instead of the oxygen in the water, which is too low under such conditions to sustain piscatorial life...
...anticipate skeptics, Professor Lipman last week noted that he found enough organic nitrogen in his meteoric specimens to sustain the life of a few bacteria: that bacteria can endure intense cold; that the heat generated by a meteorite passing through the Earth's atmosphere is not enough to kill sealed-in bacteria because the passage occurs so quickly that the interior of the meteorite is relatively cool though the outside is white...
...concept of the law. New ideas, like cosmic rays, have a way of penetrating its ancient wall of detachment and starting little legal revolutions in its august consciousness. Many a sage observer believes that the Supreme Court today would reverse itself on child labor, would find a way to sustain minimum wage legislation...