Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refreshing to read a realistic analysis of the present economic situation. The February News Letter of the National City Bank presents just such an analysis. The pamphlet finds no change in the general situation. Shortsighted and ignorant of its own best interests, public opinion has forced the government to maintain an uncompromising stand on questions of international economic relations such as the gold standard, war debts tariffs Uncertain as to the action or inaction of the government in the future, business men have no will to spend, and funds continue to pile up in the money markets of the country...
Their weekly Washington letter ($25 per year) is a careful reflection of Capital sentiment on fiscal questions, with pros & cons duly weighed. It is long on discussion, short on prediction. In general it takes a long-range view. A half-dozen staffmen maintain personal contacts on Capitol Hill and in. government departments. The letters are compiled in the Munsey Building...
When Princeton University opened last autumn, its matriculants were the largest in number, the ablest in mind ever accepted. Princeton could very well maintain its standards as they are and still keep its classes up to the prescribed limit. But liberalism is increasing in the secondary schools; work is being done which does not fit in with ordinary college entrance requirements. Last week the Princeton board of trustees directed that the admission requirements for Princeton be revised. Henceforth, instead of being obliged to present 15 units of credit (each representing one year's work in one subject), a student...
Headmaster Stearns, a tall, thin, large-nosed pedagog who had graduated from Amherst and taught at Hill School, brought to Andover two things: an austere determination to maintain pure intellectualism against the encroachments of vocational education; and much zeal for arousing alumni interest in the school. He resisted tinkering with College Board requirements, campaigned to get more students for a full four-year course. In his later years Headmaster Stearns grew less companionable with his students and his sermons frequently emphasized the necessity of repenting...
Dirty weather began as soon as the ship left Cherbourg. The second day out the great hull plowed into mountainous grey-streaked combers and a 60-m. p. h. head wind. Speed was cut to 7 knots, just enough to maintain steerage but so vast is the Majestic that first-class passengers remained in comparative comfort. At lunch time she creaked violently twice, a shudder ran down the ship. Few passengers noticed...