Word: mained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sabotage continues. Last week the main line of the railway used by the French for transportation of coal to France was torn up for a considerable, distance by bombs. To the French ,this is only an inconvenience. Their victory in the Ruhr, from a materialistic point of view, is complete; but they have not been able to conquer the spirit of the people to the same extent...
...maintained. Like other Red Books, this one is chiefly a picture gallery, including photographs of individual members of the class, group photographs of teams, committees, and other organizations, and characteristic views of men, events, and places connected with Freshman life. The accounts of sports and activities are in the main, thoughtfully planned and ably written: the closing section on "The Freshman Year" is a particularly graphic piece of composition...
...possible, of course, for a man occupying a high public position to hold opinions unbiased by political main chances. But in the present case, after a continuously rumbling presidential boom, after the frequent closeted conferences at which "nothing of a political nature was discussed", after the solemn prognostications of political seers as to the effect of the governor's approval or veto, the evidence is strong that his opinion was political as well as personal. And yet his approval would seem highly impolitic unless Governor Smith has a keener eye than most men. To secure the Democratic nomination...
...clock this morning the 1926 Freshman Red Book will go on sale at each of the three Freshman dormitories. Residents of Smith, Drayton, and Shepard Halls, and subscribers not living in the Freshman Halls will obtain their copies of the Red Book from the main office in Persis Smith B. Residents of Gore Hill will get their books in the Gore Common Room, while Standish men will go to Standish E-13 for theirs. The offices will be open until 3 o'clock this afternoon...
...country in connection with the two factors which must be considered, namely the volume and head obtainable. In the western states the source of power is principally in glacial streams which flow down from the Rocky Mountain ranges and assure both a steady flow and a high head, the main difficulty in this region being in the harnessing of the available power. Successful development in the East, on the other hand, depends because of the irregularity of the volume of water and the relation of the flow to precipitation, on the creation of storage reservoirs which permit the equalization...