Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking into full account the requirements of internal prosperity, to maintain the greatest possible equilibrium in the system, of international exchange and to avoid to the utmost extent the creation of any disturbances of that system by internal monetary action...
...hosts the cost of local banquets for the U. S. Ambassador. He will feed as many local bigwigs as possible, also five U. S. correspondents. Next the Davieses will hurry to Manhattan, embark on their yacht for the Coronation (see p. 19), thence cruise to Leningrad where they will maintain the yacht ready for use at all times...
...trouble is not with the authors, but is in the self-conscious questioning attitude with which the sitter receives his portrait. Sensitive readers, who did not feel themselves portrayed, and who were thus able to maintain a comparative detachment, were a little saddened by, no mater how much they admired, the unbending Mr. Apley. But as usual the most thorough condemnation came from the condemned. The saddest sentence of all came from the Boston Evening Transcript, in discussing Mr. Marquand upon the occasion of his engagement: "'George Apley' is Mr. Marquand's best book. Mr. Edgett of the Transcript...
...Majesty's Government has not lost hope in devoting its efforts to maintain peace by a pact to take the place of the old Locarno Pact with the old Locarno powers. I think it may well be in the immediate future that the most hopeful prospect is the prospect of the regional pact. It is worth anything and everything in Europe today to get a feeling of security -at any rate in one part-from which that security, if once attained, may spread to other parts of the Continent. Were there a pact-I am not speaking of collective...
Following Borle's talk, William H. Orrick of the Yale News, adjourned the meeting and officially closed the 1937 Conference, promising at the same time that when the 1938 edition opens in New Haven, Yale will endeavor to maintain the high standard of interest set by Princeton and Harvard