Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...render a far more valuable service by incorporating within her own curriculum a system of education along the lines of that now in effect in Columbia. There, about 10,000 students, not part of the undergraduate body, are educated each year. With care and patience Harvard could develop and maintain a system of this kind which would be far more valuable than lending out instructors to a separate institution...
...During the last fifty years there has been a sharp upward curve in the registering of employees under the Civil Service, with relatively minor slumps during depressions. True, the real plums are still reserved for politicians, but many can be won. And, surprisingly, the English people have managed to maintain the party system, even with a great Civil Service system...
...agreements are about to expire. Few of those attending it have any hope of winning even a grudging agreement. The three U. S. delegates, backed up by 17 technical experts, sailed with two aims: 1) to secure a treaty which will entail no further naval construction: 2) to maintain the present naval tonnage ratio of five for the U. S. to Britain's five and Japan's three. Last week they could already hear in their minds' ears the words of their London conferees and in none of them was encouragement...
...deepest shame would resign "because of illness contracted from stove- gas in my residence." Not to be put off with stove-gas, Generalissimo Chiang meanwhile wired from Nanking asking goat-bearded General Sung Cheh-yuan, who is supposed to be the real ruler of Hopei and Chahar Provinces, to maintain some kind of Nanking authority in North China by accepting the title of "Pacification Commissioner." This honor General Sung, who looks and knows how to act the part of a traditional hoary Chinese War Lord with delicacy and finesse, declined...
...from Yenching University whose calm, clear-headed President John Leighton Stuart is now in Manhattan. Highly excited, Yenching's Chinese, American & European faculty leaders this week joined fiery Chinese Philosopher Hu Shih in a manifesto demanding that the Nanking Government "use the energies of the entire nation to maintain the territorial and administrative integrity of China." Gravely Dr. Stuart opined that, in case Japan makes North China a second Manchukuo, the courageous thing for Yenching to do may be to remove in a pioneering trek to China's Wild West, 1,000 miles from where the Japanese invaders...