Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student participation in athletic sports, require a substantially increased annual revenue. The decreased purchasing power of the dollar has inevitably increased operating expenses of every sort until the choice new rests between abandonment or radical curtailment of the policy of "athletics for all" and increased revenue for its proper support...
...shorter stories of the nineteenth century would not support such intense interest. Today a whole story can often be read in the waiting room of a dentist. But the readers of the Boston Traveller know that men and women of English speech have not lost their appreciation for a two, three or even five month romance at least...
...According to a Grand Dragon who left the Klan last fall, it had 97,000 members a year and a half ago, and now has less than 18,000. Several of its locals are in the hands of "supervisors", virtual receivers. Its power has fallen so rapidly that Klan support is a liability to a politician...
...Lloyd George's automobile sped toward Kingsway Hall, Lon, where 1,500 delegates of his party (Liberal) were assembling to decide whether they would support his well-advertised Land Tenure Reform scheme (TIME, Sept. 28 et seq.). Mr. George's motor accidentally crashed into one of the stanchions of the hall, stopped. Mr. George stepped out of the wreckage, entered the hall...
...TIME, Feb 8) and resigned from the party.* On the last day of the meeting the Laborite Daily Herald exulted: "Within the last few days the disappearance from the political arena of the corpse of Liberalism has been brought much nearer. Lloyd George stands alone, without friends and without support...