Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Question: Resolved. That the United States should construct and maintain the Nicaragua Canal...
Question: "Resolved, That the United States ought to construct and maintain the Nicaragua Canal." Principal Disputants.-Affirmative: F. C. Thwaits and J. D. Upton.-Negative: W. H. Davis and G. O. Virtue...
...standard theatre, where plays written by the most famous American authors can be put on the stage for the public without undergoing the savage overhauling and distortions of unliterary managers. In other countries the works of the greatest literary geniuses are produced with great success. Theatrical managers here maintain that the public would not tolerate the plays of our literary men. To test the truth of this assertion is now the purpose of the Theatre of Art and Letters. It has made a fair beginning in New York and now with its most representative play...
...University to speak after the principal disputants. We understand that, in this general debate, members of the Union and outsiders will be on equal terms; and this is good, both because it will prevent ill-feeling and be cause it will stimulate rivalry, the members feeling they must maintain their position, the other men that they must establish their reputation. The provisions for excluding business from regular meetings and for limiting the time of debate are exceptionally wise. On the whole, everything looks propitious for the new organization. If it accomplishes the work it has laid out, it will...
...Behring Sea. - (a) Immediate action by U. S. is necessary to prevent extermination of seals: U. S. Doc. House Report p. 3883, 2nd Ses. 50th Cong.; Bancroft's Alaska, ch. XXI; Behring Sea, 93; Am, Hist L'f't, 16, 17. - (b) A nation's first duty is to maintain the existence of its inhabitants, and a large number of the inhabitants would starve if Gov. did not protect seal fisheries: Hall, 42; Fur Seal Fisheries of Alaska, 6-7; B. S. Con., 90. - (c)Parallel of the Newfoundland Banks' fisheries: Blaine...