Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four hands on a plane and percussion gave hints of what follows. Britten unfolds music of gay brightness, reminiscent of his work in the humorous opera "Albert Horring." The plot of the bedtime story is naturally flabby, and the acting of the children, though excellent, is not enough to sustain interest...
Before World War I, Russia's farm output had to sustain a nation of 137 million people, 86% of them peasants. Now, with a food output only some 30% larger than that of 1913, it has to sustain a peasantry of about the same size as in 1913, plus a new proletariat of 60-odd million city workers - half again more people, a third more food...
...While recognizing in its fullest extent the advantages of a liberal education in the purely secular order, the College at the same time understands that education must contain a power that can form or sustain character...
...Senate also urged members to contribute individually two percent of their gross wages to sustain non-signing faculty while their cases against the Regents are pending in California courts...
...crisis in a single cell may come when it is no longer able to manufacture enough nucleoproteins to sustain both itself and the multiplying virus. What happens when this takes place on a large scale is that many nerve cells are destroyed. Unlike most of the body's other cells, they cannot be replaced. Once they are destroyed, the muscles controlled by them wither from disuse, and lasting paralysis results; if the cells are only damaged, the paralysis may be temporary as the cells are repaired and again control the muscles...