Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...urgent appeal by L. S. Minor, dean of the Harvard Dental School, to maintain the free medical clinics of the Burroughs Newsboys' Foundation was made yesterday...
...argued that there is no such thing as aesthetic apart from sociological judgment. "The sociological conditions which brought about a novel like 'Oil'. . . have passed." It would be interesting, and faintly reminiscent of Mr. Hoover's assurances that the depression will be over in a few months, to seriously maintain this thesis...
...general health of the people is at a higher level today than ever before. . . . There have been less strikes than even in normal times. . . . I finally secured the passage of the [Home Loan Bank] bill. ... I have practically prohibited all immigration. . . . We have fought a great battle to maintain the stability of the American dollar. . . . Credit is being expanded and normal jobs are coming back. . . . September alone shows an increase of 3 6/10% in employment. . . . Let no man say that things could not have been worse. Things could have been so much worse that today would look like prosperity...
...return for Canada's "favors" (such as they are) Great Britain will take an historic step, abandoning her sacrosanct principle of a "Free British Meal Table" (no tariffs or insignificant tariffs on foods). Under the Ottawa agreements the London Parliament is to bind itself for five years to maintain a myriad of tariffs on foodstuffs, from which Canadian edibles will mostly be exempt. It is this tying of Britain's hands which some of her greatest lawyers have flayed as unprecedented in British constitutional history (TIME...
...deserve every guffaw dispatched in its ill-fated direction. Against such sincerity there is small use to argue that undergraduates as well as faculty will recite the affirmation mechanically, with the slightest suggestion of a hypocritical smirk at the faculty of such rigamarole; it would be equally futile to maintain that if a college man is not already mature enough to appreciate his opportunities, no more administration of an oath will boost him suddenly out of his adolescence...