Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Public Economy: ". . . Prompt and drastic reduction of public expenditure. . . . The party will continue to uphold the gold standard. Relief by currency inflation is unsound in principle and dishonest in results. An ailing body cannot be cured by quack remedies...
...joke, this defiance to the Federal Government was called "miniature civil war" by Berlin papers hostile to Bavaria. Dr. Held excused his undressing of Hitlerites as "necessary to uphold States' rights...
...expense of teaching ability. The Vagabond does not care to argue the point; he only regrets that a man who so well combines both talents should be leaving the University, that once again a Jonah is being swallowed up in Wales. Who in History 1 will so well uphold the traditions established by Professor Merriman in the first half, including the excellent one of making the late-coming Freshman acutely conscious of his low place in the scale of things? After this morning there will be only impressions of a booming voice, a collar, and many lectures that made dead...
Harvard will uphold the negative of the question "Resolved, That some form of socialism should be adopted in the United States". There will be six speakers, and each man is to speak for 15 minutes, with the exception of the first who will be given ten minutes, with a five-minute rebuttal. The Crimson participants, in the order in which they will speak, are W. A. McGivney '33, H. M. Lawn '34, D. M. Sullivan '33, and R. H. Amberg '33 (alternate). The negative speakers are Bodimer, Smith, and Grabill...
Critical observers frequently deprecate the amazing regularity with which this column is filled; they incline to the belief that the "News" resorts to editorial space-filler at times. May we merely suggest that we uphold no tradition to turn out a definite number of words each day and that we are not devoted to the publication of insignificant ideas...