Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nature of that ground went back directly to M. Barthou's general diplomatic background. It was he as French War Minister in 1921 who wrote the military clauses of the Franco-Polish Alliance. This alone enabled the re-created Polish State to maintain itself against Soviet Russia and against Germany's desire to recover the Polish Corridor. In the whole post-War period up to last winter Poland was regarded as the fortunate and presumably grateful protege of France...
...probationary wayside. There it is that the first dawn of Harvard begins to glow in the minds of the harassed Freshman. There he may see for the first time the early kindness of the first few days give way before the grim reality of hard labor necessary to maintain the required standards of a Harvard education...
Ship News. The full title is New York Ship News Reporters Association. The organization's only function is to maintain headquarters in a long, squat building at the Battery, the noisy tip of Manhattan Island. The building, hard by the Customs House, is called the Barge Office. There a Western Union printer reports on every floating object that passes Quarantine, eight miles down New York Harbor from the Battery...
...have not asked for this plebiscite for my own sake!" The Leader cried in his final prolix but passionate appeal. "I need no vote of confidence to strengthen or maintain my position. But the German people need a Chancellor who is set before the world as the bearer of their confidence...
...Warren Gamaliel Harding II, 28, is also a doctor. She trained with her husband at the Seventh Day Adventists' College for Medical Evangelists at Loma Linda, Calif. For the past two years they have worked in the sanatorium which Seventh Day Adventists maintain at Wahroonga, Australia...