Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trying to defeat "strong defense" advocates for Congress, including the Committee's Chairman Carl Vinson, who introduced the Big Navy bill. Said Secretary Rankin: "It is argued that the proposed increases are for defense but there is no assurance as to what the Government contemplates defending. . . . We maintain that a wholly abnormal naval building program on the part of the United States will intensify international tensions and distrust and increase the speed with which humanity is drifting into the general destruction of another World...
...this brood can ever get back to the old Yard or the new Houses for a visit or renewal of contact with their Alma Mater; business pressure, distance, inertia, or a thin wallet sec to that. Yet it is vitally necessary that Harvard alumni do maintain a thread of contact with the University from year to year. This makes for a stronger Harvard, and for better graduates in the future. Furthermore, it gives graduates a chance to meet again with old classmates in their own region. No one will deny the value of such regular contacts...
...Since the crash of collective security, there is nothing left but balance of power to maintain an equilibrium," Hopper said, "but just how to get Britain and America to co-operate is always sort of a difficulty...
...civil population can hold out under the strain, Franco's prospects may have definitely faded by the summer. Even so, the disappearance of Franco's hopes of victory would not necessarily mean the restoration of the Government's supremacy throughout Spain. Thus, if the Government can maintain its own food supplies, the most probable outcome would seem to be that the war may peter out with Spain divided into two parts more or less along the present battle line. If peace is thus restored, conflict might be expected to break out inside those parts, especially on Franco...
Meanwhile, the seven remaining Lockheed 14Hs that belong to Northwest Airlines have been corrected in the airlines' St. Paul shops. Nonetheless, B. A. C. last week suddenly cracked down, suspended for 15 days Northwest's license to carry passengers because of failure to maintain equipment up to required standards. This was a slap in the face for Northwest Airlines, which until this crash due to a structural failure, had the enviable record of eleven years' flying over difficult mountain terrain without one fatal accident...