Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject of the Naval Conference in London, Libby expressed the belief that it will succeed "but needs the support of enlightened public opinion in the countries participating. Unquestioned success at London requires visible reduction in expenditures and the abolition of battleships is the hope, if net savings are to be obtained. The rapid development of the airplane and the submarine during the 11 years since the war has made it unlikely that battleships will ever again repeat the Gallipoli adventure. The only other historic use of battleships is in fighting other battleships. If there are no other battleships to fight...
...Andover Theological Seminary. He taught for seven years at Phillips Exeter Academy. During the war and for two years thereafter he engaged in European relief and reconstruction work for the Society of Friends. Since 1921, when he organized the National Council for the Prevention of War to support the Washington Conference, he has devoted all his time and resources to pacifist enterprise...
...Lowell seems at some pains to avoid the appearance of rushing the thing by emphasizing the point that the idea has been in the minds of the Corporation for some two decades. It seems justifiable to assume that this somewhat anxious stressing of what is at best a flimsy support arises from the consciousness that the completion of the plan is being forced with extraordinary haste. Certainly the statement that all the houses will be ready for occupancy by a year from next September falls as a surprise upon the ears of those who last Spring were given to understand...
...Stone, vice-chairman of the Federal Farm Board. From Kentucky, he represents tobacco growers on the Board. His proposal: a 50% reduction in all U. S. tobacco taxes. At the Capitol Senator Alben William Barkley of Kentucky and other members from tobacco-growing States were cheered at this potent support for their efforts, so far ineffectual, to ''relieve" tobacco growers...
Anglo-Saxons may well ask what such words mean, if anything. They are a circumlocution worthy of a Grandee of Spain. Without compromising the Captain General, they sufficiently imply his support of the revolution, and the subsequent seemingly nonsensical allusion to a house of ill-fame may be considered a Spanish masterpiece. It is another way of saying: "I will not be taken for a lecherous old swine like Primo de Rivera." For any Spaniard would recognize the allusion to an occasion when the Chief of Police of Madrid personally conducted a raid on a celebrated bawdy house, thundered...