Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...llinois became the 13th State to have compulsory jury service for women; 12 States, Alaska and the District of Columbia permit them to serve but don't make it mandatory; 23 States still maintain the jury in masculine purity...
...friends, free again to take up their old cries of international class war, down-with-capitalism, etc., were not in an altogether happy position. To portray Joseph Stalin's totalitarian regime as the flower of revolutionary socialism will be as tough a thesis as it was to maintain for four years that "Communism is Twentieth Century Americanism...
Since 1938 Carol has not only been King but dictator of Rumania. That he should undertake all this reconstruction in such perilous times is perhaps proof enough of his faith in his ability to maintain Rumania as a going concern for some time to come...
Hobbing and Dale maintain that as a result of the Administration's present policy, "Teaching in fields of concentration, affecting about half of the undergraduates, will be severely injured.... The best teachers and scholars will be lost... The staffing of the Faculty will be thrown out of joint...
Attacking the "top-heavy structure" of University government, they maintain that "Entangled in the web of its own methods, the Administration blundered, when wider distribution of responsibility and consultation would have secured proper education policy...