Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fireside chat of Henry II that led so unfortunately to the assassination of Thomas a Becket suggests an interpretation of the analogy to Roosevelt's court reforms that was perhaps not quite the one the Vagabond had in mind. I do not have enough of his facile subtlety to maintain the anonymity of his analogy, so I hope I will be excused if I have to treat mine more explicitly...
...rates in effect prior to the inauguration of the present rates at the beginning of the academic year 1936-37, were considerably under normal it was pointed out. Those rates were $.75 a week under the present amount charged and the University was able to maintain them only because the price of food was so much less 4 years ago than...
...March Issue of the "Harvard Guardian". Professor Langer says, that "it has been shown over and over again and proved to the hilt with statistics that colonies are not a paying proposition." Does Professor Langer or anybody else suppose that colonies would be sought, and when acquired, maintained, if they were NOT paying propositions? Does anybody hang on to a hot potato, if it is burning his hand? Nations DO get something, and enough, from their colonies, so that they will hang on to them. Somebody gets the gold, or somebody gets the trade, or somebody gets the glory...
Amplifying this statement, he pointed out the possible grave international consequences of a change in political alignment at this time, and intimated that a good deal depended on the Leftist party's ability to maintain confidence in the franc...
...report of its sub-committee which, in effect, said that there was no need for making any real change at the present time. It was felt that because Article I of the Constitution states that a man from each House shall sit on the Council, cooperation could be maintained through informal discussion and notification of House chairmen when any matter concerning a House was to be brought up. To supplement this there would be conferences between the President of the Council and the Inter-House Committee which the President is to help call into being each fall. Although much...