sustentation
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Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud.
From Time Magazine Archive
The meteoric, or "dynamical," theory of solar sustentation was expounded by him before the British Association in 1853.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)
There remains, then, as the only intelligible rationale of solar sustentation, Helmholtz's shrinkage theory.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)
The fundamental question that had to be answered in that book was the question of the "sustentation" of the new Church.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by Rudd, John
Interest as connected with the sustentation of a certain mode of social life.
From A Critical Examination of Socialism by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)
