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Word: maintain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those treaties, as evidenced by the recent notice of Japan to terminate the Washington treaty and by the programs effected and contemplated by some European powers. It is the hope of the Government to secure an arrangement that will avoid competition in naval armaments whilst leaving us free to maintain the fleet at the strength necessary for our absolute requirements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 6%, 10% & 17% v. Howls | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

...residents to think up peculiar meals, though. Country folks have faith in fresh air and quantity to keep their dogs healthy, but poodle owners in the city devise meals calling for proportions in ounces, with dishes like lamb hearts, "limited milk," haliveroil, and special oven dried crumbs to maintain the morale and health of their pets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Canine Catering Company Supplies Meals to Elite of Local Dog World to Save Digestions | 3/16/1935 | See Source »

...ablest exponents of the existing order will cry out at this arbitrary treatment of Mr. Strachey, for they maintain that when they know the critic's reasoning they are better able to refute the accusations. As Villard, a prominent liberal and recent lecturer at Harvard, said "repression was never yet a remedy for anything." Martyrdom and emotionalism, it has been historically proved time and time again, always will be the subvertor's most effective weapons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DANGERS OF REPRESSION | 3/14/1935 | See Source »

...also announced that Samuel Sachs, New York broker, who died March 2, had bequeathed the University $40,000, to be used to maintain the chair in Fine Arts which he established in 1916. He was the father of Paul J. Sachs '00, professor of Fine Arts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD TO RECEIVE $25,000 BY WILL OF JUSTICE HOLMES | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...strove last year to keep onetime Assistant Secretary of Commerce William P. MacCracken out of jail for contempt of the Senate contributed largely to the fact that MacCracken last week went to jail* (see p. 14). Lawyer Hogan has probably the largest non-lobbying law firm in Washington to maintain. Though he has represented Mr. Mellon on previous occasions, he was no doubt deeply grateful to the Government last week for putting him in the way of what should be his fattest fee in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Rich Men Scared | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

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