Word: upholds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis). But he did not play the best golf. "Those cups looked smaller than shrunken thimbles," he moaned, as he posted 160 (83-77) for the opening 36-hole medal round, five strokes too many to qualify him for the match play that determines the champion. Left to uphold the honor of the crooners' guild was Richard D. ("Dick") Chapman, 29-year-old New York and Pinehurst socialite, whose nightclub warbling has been more lark than livelihood. Playboy Chapman turned in the best medal score-140 (71-69), second lowest in Amateur history...
American Youth Commission's Howard Y. McClusky: "Without exception the dictators of Europe have risen to power upon the shoulders of bewildered youth. What the youth of America think and do is of supreme importance to all of us. We want them to uphold and strengthen our democracy-but we will have to show them and give them a democracy that works...
...Crimson's stand on American Neutrality this spring has not been an easy one to uphold. With every German victory in Europe the cry against un Americanism has grown louder. The President now has declared America's "non-belligerency." The pressure groups of 1917 have marshalled their strength, with his explicit approval, and the college presidents and prominent citizens have joined the newspapers in the campaign "of education...
...prepared himself to unify his bilingual country by learning and speaking Flemish as fluently as French. More self-assertive than his father, he prepared his people for an era of change and modernization, led by him, when he said that the Belgian Constitution, which he vowed in 1934 to uphold, was "sufficiently subtle to allow of adaptation to new circumstances...
...view of Russell's statement that he will not teach his own concepts of morality in class, Dorgan's contention would seem difficult to uphold...