Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Douglas does his best, but he can't sustain the pace set by Miss Dunne. Her light yet distinguished touch together with the play's witty writing metamorphose the hackneyed plot into a superb if insignificant, "modern comedy...
...created supreme contempt for balanced budgets, and a non-chalance about a few billions more added to the public debt. Yet last year the President, in one of his few truly statesmenlike messages, rallied the opponents of the bonus raid to his side and preserved enough congressional discipline to sustain his veto. Even then his career was sadly reminiscent of the parable concerning a rake's progress. This year's veto was, by contrast, innocuous and no attempt was made to hold Congress in line by applying pressure. In this rare case when he had once shown intestinal fortitude...
...with mass rebellion on the part of big holding companies, can prosecute for noncompliance with the law, which to date has not been violated. Sensing the threatened revolt, SEChairman Landis called upon powermen to weigh their plans in the light of the penalties involved, should the Supreme Court eventually sustain the Act. Pointing out that they could reserve full right to challenge the Act while. filing the relatively simple registration, he cried over the powermen's heads to their stockholders: "There lies the simple path of safety...
...President Roosevelt as a practical farmer," began a dispatch to the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune last week, "has given concrete proof that agriculture can sustain itself and even operate at a profit without the aid of his New Deal...
...tapestry paintings are very good things to do for an artist who has children to take care of. You see painting is continuous and more fluid than this sort of thing. You must sustain a mood. This can be picked up and put down at will. It is more precise and you must have time to think your effects out well ahead of time. It never used to hurt my eyes either, but I'm afraid it does a little now. I shan't do any more of them. I am appalled at the thought of the work...