Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should provide for these men. But, disregarding the physical difficulties of a rapid expansion, the services involved would cost a great deal of money. And in the minds of any college governing board, the responsibility to regular undergraduate and graduate students, a responsibility which it is infinitely difficult to maintain intact in times of depression, is more urgent from the point of view of proximity and at least equally urgent from the point of view of social welfare...
...Little Entente is firmly resolved to maintain by all possible means all the territory...
...trip down, one of the pilots told an acquaintance, two cylinders of the port motor had repeatedly cut out. At times none of the motors of the old plane, once grounded by the Department of Commerce, had turned up enough revolutions to maintain altitude...
Whatever substitute is adopted, the present system is doomed and must go. It is impossible to maintain one's intellectual integrity while reading only one side of a question, and most economists, sociologists, and historians represent only one side of the problems which they treat. The handling of the history of the American Civil War, to cite one instance, has till only very recently been replete with prejudice and bias, fictions and mistakes, merely because most of the men who dealt with the subject were Northerners, incapable of analyzing events and trends truthfully. Not even Hans Sachs would have...
When asked if he had taken special precautions to prevent a repetition of the famous Memorial Hall clapper episode a year ago, Major Apted said. "It's our job to maintain the peace; that's all. No, I wouldn't say anything about special preparations even if I had made them. I never make statements...