Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With swift and decisive action last night the Student council threw itself into the melee occasioned by the virtual firing of Alan R. Sweezy '29, and J. Raymond Walsh, instructors in Economics. It voted 14-2 top sustain a resolution that political bias had not influenced either the Economics Department nor the Administration in the failure to promote Sweezy and Walsh...
Later in the afternoon the House upheld the gubernatorial decision through failure to mass a two-thirds vote to override. The final legislatorial ballot stood at 100 to sustain and 101 to override...
...reproduced on Arizona sands, the Garden of Allah is very pretty to look at, but hardly entertaining in itself after an hour or so. As so many directors before him, producer Selznick has relied on a panorama of Morrocco and its outlying districts to sustain an old story that had no business being converted into a movie in the first place. But to condemn the picture's direction and plot is not an deprecate either the acting of its stars or the Impressive Technicolor in which it is filmed. Marlene Dietrich as a rich adventuress and Charles Boyer...
...Adventures in Manhattan" will please individuals who enjoy predicting the climax of a mystery thriller when the story is only partially unfolded. As a movie which in parts is both uncommonly good and uncommonly bad, it contains enough comedy sequences, to sustain a plot which is highly improbable at best. The new edition of the March of Time suspends the propaganda and presents an interesting portrayal of the Mormen Church and the modern doctors' fight against cancer...
...shadow of a plot helps to sustain the interest. The great Hannes and his new protege are made the "foxes" in a hunt on skis. Distinguished by caps, the two set out on the trail. Soon a mad chase ensues, and up great slops of crusty snow, down mountains perilous with crevices, and over the expansive ranges of the Tyrol the two are tracked by fifty pairs of skis. Rich comedy is afforded by a ludicrous dwarf and giant pair, whose antics on skis are similar to those in last year's "Slalom...