Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never suggested that the power of Congress be handed over to a commission, . . I ask that the Tariff Commission be rehabilitated and be strengthened, that the right type of people be appointed to it ... to lay before Congress and the people of the United States the underlying facts that sustain the reason for every change in a tariff schedule...
...Reading Period, has overwhelmed the playboy except in that brief period between September and October of the Freshman year and club life in the old people, has largely disappeared when it threatened to take the time of the one outside activity that most men are able to sustain...
...acclaim that the Bremen's heroine crew has won in 1928. Whatever Germany's time in doffing her cuirass and carrying a dove on her wrist, she has succeeded beyond cavil in regaining a position of honor and trust among the nations. She has honestly endeavored to sustain a balance of concord in the world; and while other powers equivocate on treaties of peace, she has steadfastly backed them. One does not need to believe that this is altruism; it is enough that the ogre has proved to be a very gentle creature, and that Deutsche Treue has found international...
...From the National Manufacturer's Association, President Coolidge received comfort. The association's chief, John E. Edgerton of Tennessee, notified the Senate Finance Committee that U. S. manufacturers regard "excessive" tax reduction as "a reckless invitation to an Executive veto under the President's responsibility to sustain a balanced budget." More, the manufacturers specifically endorsed the Administration's latest tax-reduction estimate - $182,000,000 in case of a 30-million...
...rate. And here, once more, we come into conflict with the American psychology. As a people, we are very tender of our children's minds. We regard life as a severe practical struggle as a battle of the strong. And we want our children to be strong enough to sustain it before they begin it. The solution of the problem thus presented seems to rest on the development of means to train the very young mind without menace to its health and happiness. In other words the problem is one which we have to work out for ourselves. We cannot...