Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find a national community in which uncounted millions, from the National Socialist fighter to the soldier and from the laborer to the official, are working in loyal comradeship and honest fulfillment of duty for the reconstruction of the State and the bringing up of a nation that desires to maintain itself in this world in honor, peace and diligence...
...ducks. . . . The amazing thing to me is that with a $500,000,000 industry to maintain no one should have started long ago to put the duck business on a factual basis. No one knows whether we kill 12,000,000 and hatch 11,000,000 a year or whether we kill 24,000,000 and hatch 10,000,000. . . . This year the Biological Survey has set its hand to that job as intensively as our constricted budget would allow...
...order that Harvard may maintain her traditionally liberal policy of receptiveness and adaptability to the forces of the times, more attention must be paid to training men in the College for service in the changing scene of politics today. The Business School has taken a laudable step in establishing courses in the new field of governmental business administration, but adequate guidance among the shifting milestones of present day political theory and action should be furnished for the undergraduate as well...
...their treatment of labor, a crucial index to the sentiment of any modern government, the powers that be have repeatedly attempted to mollify strikers while really protecting employers, as some union leaders have complained. Pleas for a truce, for pacific adjustment of quarrels, generally indicate a gentle determination to maintain the status quo. Naturally, the problem is not this simple in reality, as public utility men will loudly declaim. But on the whole, the policy of the President appears to be one of favoring big business first, and groups like the National Chamber of Commerce are slowly coming to realize...
Sixty-one years ago, when San Francisco was just emerging from the whiskers of the Bret Harte era, enthusiastic citizens dug deep into their pokes to establish the San Francisco Art Association. One of the association's major objects was to "maintain a permanent museum of fine arts." Last week S. F. A. A. held its 55th annual exhibition, and fulfilled its promise. After 61 years the San Francisco Art Museum opened with 14 exhibition galleries and a handsome lady director brought on from Cincinnati...