Word: mained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole it is a good thing that he should be well rounded; at least, he will now be able to roll smoothly and comfortably through life. If he was born into the world with normal interests and average abilities, if his main ambition is to obtain a good job, settle down, pay his bills, and in other ways become a respectable member of the community, college will have given him the proper equipment. His concentration will have given him sufficient knowledge and training to hold his job; his distribution will have endowed him with certain stimulating outside interests to serve...
...enrich their home states. So all came at last to battle. Skirmish. The first clash echoed only with the rattle of small arms, yet that first skirmish was a matter of high import in the strategy, for in it Field Marshal Simmons secured a vantage point that secured his main line of communications. He proposed that either the minority or the majority of the finance committee should have authority to call upon the Treasury Department for tax reports of corporations to show how much profit they have been making under the present law. The Democrats rushed forward in a body...
When the London announcement was cabled to Argentina, ferreting Buenos Aires reporters wormed out the further fact that the d'Abernon mission had arranged an Anglo-Argentine floating credit of £16,000,000 ($77,760.000) to facilitate the mutual buying and selling provided for in the main agreement. The usually well-informed La Prensa declared that the British Government would use its £8,000,000 ($38,880,000) purchases of Australian food and raw materials "to feed and clothe the British Army and Navy...
Preparation and training, past and done with. Now for the main thing; the big thing. Trying one's wings for the first time...
...answer constantly growing criticism of what was almost generally conceded to be the classic example of the preparatory school course in college, is a step so obviously in the right direction that it deserves more than passing mention from those vitally interested in Harvard's progressive policy. The main point in his new program, as any one can deduce from a careful reading of the Confidential Guide to Government 1, included in today's issue of the CRIMSON is not chiefly a change in the periods between quizzes or the order in which the governments of the various countries...