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Word: maintain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complained of insolence and insubordination among the crew. One gentleman from East Orange roared: "Rottenest bunch of Red agitators I've ever seen!" Another said he was roundly berated by a steward whom he addressed as "boy." Dollar Line officials declared they were making a sincere effort to maintain the best possible service under the circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Crew Troubles | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...eventual set-up would be one where each House had groups of twenty or thirty, which would be representative of the various categories of individuals in Harvard College. Each group in a House as a unit could contribute what its type had to offer to the University, and thus maintain the cross-section with its desirable features...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD'S SOCIAL PROBLEM | 4/18/1936 | See Source »

...political organization which hopes for support from the majority of Harvard students must fight to maintain a spirit of non-partisanship against all comers. The inevitable attempt at a radical coup d'etat should be ground under foot at its first budding, and the obvious failure of political bodies here in past years has been their inability to show this resistance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNITED WE FALL | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...than doubled-$13,164,000 last year compared to $5,719,000 the year before. Kennecott's copper production was 418,000,000 lb. Observed President Earl Tappan Stannard: "[Kennecott] has large ore reserves well distributed geographically, and its mining properties are presently equipped to produce, and could maintain for many years an output of over 1,000,000,000 lb. of copper per year at a low cost of production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Profitable Prosperity | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...suffered, according to their lights, by the English translation. Similar controversies have simmered in every U. S. opera community. For those who believe that the texts should be comprehensible to all, there are as many who want their operas the way they were written. The advocates of anglicized opera maintain that theirs is the one solution for broadening opera's appeal in the U. S., point to the fact that in European opera houses performances are almost always given in the language of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mastersingers for Meistersinger | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

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