Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grave or serious in his demeanor: seeking to uphold the dignity of his cloth...
...looked at the clock behind the Chief Justice and saw that it was within two or three minutes of the hour when the Court would rise, and he concluded his impressive argument with these exact words: 'If your honors shall find a way to uphold the validity of this amendment, the Government of the United States as we have known it will have ceased to exist. Your honors will have found a legislative authority hitherto unknown to the Constitution, and untrammeled by any of its limitations...
...tense moment when Elihu Root ended. ... I made an inner vow, there and then, that if the Court should find a way to uphold that amendment, despite that argument, I would give such strength and time as were at my command to appeal to the American people to undo that wrecking of our Government...
...Joad's thesis is that we are a decadent people in the same sense that Imperial Rome was decadent. And the cause for our speedy distingretation he assigns to our tendency to pursue truth, beauty and goodness. As has been already intimated, Part One--On truth--falls utterly to uphold its share in the proof. What is said here of America applies equally to any civilized country. Constantly recurring illustrations, not New York, constitute admission of inconclusive evidence...
From a list of 40 candidates Coach J. G. Fulton has chosen A. S. Reel '28, and D. W. Chapman '27 to uphold the negative side of the question against Princeton, in Cambridge; and W. P. Lorenzen '28, E. D. Rowe '27, and Barrett Williams '29 to meet the Yale negative at New Haven...