Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...oversubscription to the present loan will be the best way to show that we are backing England to the limit and that, fresh and powerful, we will keep the pace that she, the veteran...
...ability humanly possible to the support of the Government. Hopeless as such theoretical perfection may be, there can nevertheless be no doubt that universities are falling short of what may reasonably be expected of them. With the end of those initial out-pourings of men, they have failed to keep pace with the increased energies of the remainder of the nation's life...
This diminished expenditure is a source of encouragement, and of the opposite. It is in part due to our inability to keep abreast with the program. When we have no ships to send supplies across the water, we have no supplies to pay for. When we do not build ships up to schedule we are saving the expense of building them. All this is quite axiomatic. But only in part does it account for the improved treasury showing. Mr. McAdoo and his associates undoubtedly thought it best to impress their fellow-countrymen with the seriousness of the situation by very...
...good financing to pay for a war, or for anything else in the world, out of current revenues as nearly as possible in distinction from bonded indebtednesses. Debt is a millstone around the neck of a nation. Fortunate are the people who pay as they go. To keep as near that ideal as possible should be the desideratum of all statesmanship. Our enemies, who commonly belittle our activities, should at least know that, stupendous as has been our war preparation, we are paying an unprecedented fraction of it out of current taxation. Boston Herald
...course to pursue in regard to the matter. Unoffending taciturnity will not get us far along the road; better that a few of us, apparently aware of what the other was saying, should venture to discuss something so remote from our daily lives, than that all of us should keep our lips closed for fear of incurring the righteous indignation of an uninitiated person. But this step of ours was premature; we are "entirely incompetent" to deal with such problems. Let us, then, with reluctant but expectant hearts, give over the further discussion of the question to Mr. Prosser...