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Word: maintain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know full well the duties which the fatherland demands of me in this hour. Countrymen, I insist on recommending order and peace, which as a definite orientation of policy, the Government knows how to maintain energetically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Death of a Dictator | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

...Group does not think it necessary to maintain that Paradise Lost is a 'perfect' play. . . . We believe that . . . the least that one might expect is a clear-cut statement to the effect that every sensitive theatregoer must by all means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Dec. 23, 1935 | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

Perhaps the main value of the book is its presentation of facts and figures which bear upon the political thought and activity of colleges in the various sections of the country. This material is well presented and affords an interesting insight into the methods by which officials and students maintain the balance of "normal orthodoxy" on the campus. To this column the revolt on the campus hardly deserves the name, at least at present, unless an enforced but gradual awakening to realistic issues can be called a revolt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 12/19/1935 | See Source »

Further than that, the College can do nothing. To send spies to the reviews in question would be impractical and inexpensive; to pounce upon suspects on reading their reports would risk all kinds of injustice and embarassment. But only a bigoted self-cynic could maintain that such Ogpustic activity was necessary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HELLFIRE AND DAMNATION | 12/17/1935 | See Source »

...racketeers. That is Justice. The nation applauds the efforts of its agencies of Government to save innocent victims from wildcat banking, from watered stocks and from all other kinds of 'confidence games.' That is Justice. The nation applauds the efforts of Government to obtain and to maintain fair reward for labor, whether it be the labor of the farmer or the factory worker or the labor of the white collar man. That is Justice. The nation applauds efforts, through, the agencies of Government, to give a greater social security to the aged and to the unemployed, to improve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Greatest Curse | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

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