Word: sustainer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these considerations the Supreme Court necessarily put aside. It had to deal not with an individual man but with a general principle of law. Many had hoped that it would sustain the Circuit Court of Appeals, which had held that Dr. MacIntosh might be admitted to citizenship, on the ground that "the rights of conscience are inalienable rights which a citizen need not surrender." But the majority opinion of the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Hughes strongly dissenting, is that an applicant for citizenship must be willing to support the Government in a time of war. There can be no mental...
...ways are used to make a man let go of the ball. 2) Referees have not enforced the rule that no player may be ducked until he is within four feet of the ball; general and immediate ducking for everyone in the game is a tradition. 3) Many players sustain injuries every year...
...innumerable slim, exotic volumes put forth by poetasters and minor aesthetes which offer slight satisfaction for all their fine exteriors and extravagant claims. Even if bad poetry does usually fall more miserably than bad prose, those works which actually reach the heights of true poetry and sustain themselves there are all the more worthy of admiration and attention...
...University tennis team will have a record of 28 successive victories to sustain this spring. The six letter men who came out yesterday are: W. L. Breese '31, D. M. Frame '31, Captain Hill, A. C. Ingraham '31, A. W. Patterson '32, and R. L. Tower '31, most of whom have just finished a successful squash season...
...Farm Board is now carrying approximately 130,000,000 bu. of wheat, 2,000,000 bales of cotton, all bought high above the current market in an attempt to sustain domestic prices. These operations have put the Board $100,000,000 into...