Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alert, clear-eyed, sharp-eared, she heard Chief Justice Taft begin the oath: "You, Herbert Hoover, do you solemnly swear . . ." And what was her amazement to hear him conclude, "preserve, maintain and defend the Constitution of the U. S." That was a bad misquotation of the text, thought Helen, who sat right down and wrote the Chief Justice a polite note of correction...
...time when the main attraction is about to begin in the big tent. The grace with which he has withdrawn his bid for the attention of seniors at a stage when they may ill afford it should be an example to those more conservative instructors who doggedly maintain that success in the past is ample augury for success in the future...
...step cease to exist, and all Hungarians are compelled to attend the national schools of the respective successor states. The minority treaty concluded, for instance, between the Allied and Associated Powers and Roumania on December 9th, 1919, declared that the racial linguistic and religious minorities are entitled to maintain schools and that the state must to a certain degree subsidize them. In reality, however, this is not true; it exists only on paper. In Czeckoslovakia there is one such school to every 6,919 Czecks or Slovaks (because "Czeckoslovak" indicates an artificial and only apparent citizenship), but only...
...below the six billion total that prompted the Federal Reserve Board's February warning. The increase in loans was mostly from corporations, not from banks, and as long as corporations can lend out their surpluses at up to 12% call money rates, the banks generally maintain that there is no way of keeping money out of Wall St. Mr. Warburg's statement did not much annoy the speculators, who were inclined to take it as an admission that they controlled the situation, however deplorable such control might be from Mr. Warburg's standpoint...
...romance, the theory and practices of the Junior Dance passed through an extremely drab period this winter. That gloomiest two weeks in January marked likewise the high point of opposition; since then, appeal to the class as a tribunal has brought enough Ayes to quicken the rejuvenation and to maintain for at least this year the tradition of the Dance...