Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Although we are attempting to maintain a "splendid isolation" and play a lone hand, our whole policy is bringing us closer and closer to the League of Nations," the noted scholar of world affairs continued. "We are more likely to be dangerously involved in the Far East, if we continue to play this lone hand. As things are now, we enjoy the disadvantages of both being a member and a non-member of the League, and the advantages of neither. At present, we have one foot in and one foot out of the League. Although our consul at Geneva...
...matter in what other ways the houses which maintain the policy of splendid isolation may develop their individuality they can not afford to ignore this important part of their effective functions as members of the House Plan...
...would be merely repetition for me to say that the very advantages we now enjoy are made possible only by the existence of an enlightened and capable system of government. It is true that if we are to maintain our form of government we must have the leadership and cooperation of the men who by education and training are best fitted to determine the future course of our country. If this country ever awakens to the fact that politics is a science and not a game and if the college men ever muster enough courage and resolution to shoulder...
...spreading the merits and entertaining quality of TIME, I have been opposed by people who maintain TIME is a Republican magazine. Is this true, or is TIME nonpolitical? I can't help adding to this letter that I think TIME is great! It is as entertaining as it is newsy...
...strength of his admiration for Theodore Roosevelt "Wood" Axton ran for Mayor of Louisville in 1913 as a Bull Moose. Friends still maintain he won the election. He has put his money in farm lands where he raises thoroughbred cattle and horses. It was his love of horses that made him buy the name Twenty Grand several years...