Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...logical solution to problem one is to limit the number of guests in the most highly patronized dining halls, in the manner of the old Adams House rule. Problem two is more subtle. How much a hastily-gobbled frankfurter or dining with one's neighbors helps uphold the House system is unclear. But the integrity of each House, important as that is, should not be allowed to interfere with exchange of ideas which is, after all, the reason for coming to college...
...this to you." Carleton Smith, director of the National Arts Foundation, who escorted Mrs. Vanderbilt to the opening, said she had decided to attend only after he told her that Queen Mary, who recently gave him an audience in England, had remarked sadly that "so few were left to uphold tradition...
...Hinerfeld '51, Melvin L. Zurier '50, and Richard D. Rohr '50, will take the negative, will be held in the Winthrop Junior Common Room at 8 p.m. and will be broadcast by the Crimson Network. William C. Becker '51, Richard W. Hulbert '51, and Richard S. Stewart '50 will uphold the affirmative at New Haven...
Lilienthal has made a positive contribution to the concept of civil service by leaving private life when he was trained and experienced to devote his most vigorous years to government service. He has stuck through a series of violent and unjustified personal attacks to uphold his thesis that trained men in their prime belong in government work. He proved this thesis at the cost of his privacy and his personal happiness...
Should a Roman Catholic judge uphold a law of his land which his church considers unjust? This delicate question was posed by the Pope himself last week before the central committee of the Union of Catholic Italian Lawyers in Rome. The Pope's answer: when a state law conflicts with the church's teaching, a Catholic jurist need not enforce...