Word: upholds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian people have had no Thomas Jefferson to uphold "the arraignment of all abuses...
Optimistic about the future of the Democratic party, Roland A. Young '38, instructor in Government and former secretary of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will uphold the Rooseveltians, while Charles R. Cherlington '35, instructor in Government, will present the merits of the Grand Old Party, Benjamin F. Wright, Jr., assistant professor of Government, will preside...
...refused to collaborate in any postwar school plans which so much as recognized the "public" schools as part of the nation's educational system. Cried one Councilman: "We say the ["public"] system is socially unhealthy and . . . excludes the great majority of the population and is specifically designed to uphold the class system and transgresses against all the canons of democracy...
...musical institutions, the League of Composers celebrated its 20th birthday last week with a concert in Manhattan's Town Hall. No crowd clamored to buy standing room. But to many musicians it was an important event. For 20 years the league had been almost the only hand to uphold the frequently flickering torch of contemporary high-brow music...
What we need today is a united spiritual front, a unity of purpose and action. This will not be possible as long as we cannot wholeheartedly support and uphold Russia in our innermost convictions. Russia's continued appeals for a second front will be understood and unreservedly supported only if and when the Kremlin makes a definite effort to understand us (as we have been sincerely trying to understand them) and unites with us to guarantee the principles expressed in the Atlantic Charter...