Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present there are only three speakers but a fourth will be announced later. H. C. Bartlett '28 and R. A. Magowan '27 will take the negative and J. C. Furnas '27 will uphold the affirmative side of the question...
...Rowe '28 will introduce the question, speaking in favor of the administration. P. M. Brown, professor of International Law at Princeton University, will also uphold the affirmative side of the discussion. Professor Brown has recently returned from Nicaragua, where he made a detailed study of the situation. He was secretary of the legation to Guatemala and Honduras from 1903 until 1907, being charge d'affaires at various times. Between 1908 and 1910, he was an instructor of International Law at Harvard...
...read these terms and knew that his onetime Nationalist supporters had accepted them, his birthday must have been bitter. With German tact, the Nationalists despatched to Doom individually hundreds of birthday presents and almost a thousand birthday baskets of flowers. At the same time they collectively pledged themselves to uphold the Republic against the Hohenzollerns...
Scottish singer: "From West Virginia I wrote in support of Sunday observance in England: 'I am against Sunday theatre shows and have told my fellow artists if we fail to uphold our religion and our Sunday, men will scorn us, women will weep for us and children will be taught to hate the name of the theatre, and the curses of generations to come will be forever at the stage door. Men who disregard God's word and God's work can never hope to be respected. When for the first time I came to America I had four Sunday...
Lies in their more delicate shadings were considered last week by the Bishop of Southwell, addressing teachers at Nottingham, England. "I should be prepared," said he, "to exonerate a person who tells a lie to save an innocent life . . . just as I should uphold a starving man who stole food to keep himself alive." Commentators listed in the Bishop's support Victor Hugo, whose nun in Les Miserable-; told with the author's approval her first lie, for hounded Jean Valjean. Otherside supporters recalled famed Presbyterian evangelist Robert Elliott Speer's sermon The Margin of Safety...