Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...piece is amply entitled "Biography of a Bachelor Girl," the original stage title "Biography" apparently possessing too little of that certain lift which brings the boys rushing to the box office. Ina Claire's stage role is handled by Ann Harding with comparative skill and the film manages to maintain a goodly amount of the play's diverting sophistication...
...constituents that "The League finds its authority weakened" and that Geneva must now act "in the spirit of candid realism." Far from suggesting any anti-Italian or pro-Ethiopian action of a virile nature. Orator Eden announced for the British Government this unpretentious objective: "We must at this time maintain the League of Nations in existence." In quarters close to Haile Selassie it was said that he was being pressed to quit Great Britain, probably would go to live in a villa he owns in Switzerland, if Italian pressure is not exerted on the Swiss...
...Edgar Ansel Mowrer: "The chief problem confronting . . . Leon Blum, is whether France is to ... descend to the rank of a third-rate power. ... It is safe to say that never since the end of the Franco-Prussian war has Europe had less confidence in the ability of France to maintain its present position. As for the very dominant position taken naturally by France immediately after the War, there is no longer any thought of it. . . . Already Italian army officers in Ethiopia are treating the French and British officials with an indifference which would have been inconceivable a year...
...same time their letter wan circulated to members containing what was construed to refer to the League of Yellow Journalists. "We maintain that we are in NO WAY connected with other organizations seeking to follow in the wake of OUR brilliant success...
...rare mood of humility, Castoria's Blair, an amiable whirlwind who habitually uses three telephones at once, referred his colleagues to the recent rash of books debunking the proprietary medicine industry, admitted: "We realize that to sell goods, advertising must have a punch. But we must fight to maintain our high standards, in an effort to eliminate the unscrupulous manufacturer. The packaged medicines industry has fought its way through gradual and quickening changes until it is outstanding for its exact standards, its scientific controls and its modern methods of packaging and distribution. In spite of their unfair premise...