Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Right and Centre combined to give M. Daladier a 374-to-228 vote of confidence on his non-intervention policy. A vote on the Government's motion to "maintain the integrity of the French Empire and the security of its imperial routes" was unanimous - 609-to-0. It was on this question that M. Daladier became eloquent...
...hapless Colgaters would have been ignominiously shut out 68 to 7 but for the early lead which Senior breaststroker Frank Ferguson piled up and was able to maintain despite the last-lap challenge of Jack Waldron of the Crimson. This gave them five points in that event instead of their customary one point and boosted their total four above the minimum of seven. The winning time was 2:38, Waldron being nosed out by only a touch...
...taken discouraging material--an ordinary spy mystery--and has, characteristically, brewed from it a tense, gripping drama. With his uncanny skill in ordering the presentation of his material, he succeeds in building up punishing suspense, and, moreover, manages to do what few, if any, other directors can do--maintain constant interest, even down to the most casual remarks and the most inconsequential nuances. Comedy elements and other extraneous situations are introduced with perfect timing to relieve the brooding tension otherwise continuous...
Asked to comment upon the plan, Aldrich Durant, Business Manager of the University, to whose office the petition will eventually go, told the CRIMSON last night that the chain had been locked at the early hour at the request of residents and "to maintain peace and order." He pointed out the matter of the noise of automobiles and said that the Housemasters will have something to say in the matter...
...chain does not stop where Mr. Shipton has left off, however, for the pages of the directory are now graced with the name of Leverett IV, a member of the Class of 1939. His family have set a precedent which he will have to maintain...