Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oxford, who has chosen the affirmative in this much-heralded wireless debate: Resolved, That there be an Anglo-American alliance to maintain world peace, will uphold its side by demonstrating the moral effect which the United States could have on Europe...
Geneva Germany accepts international police force for the Saar; British and Italian troops to be sent by Dec. 15 to maintain order during Plebiscito period...
...corpus by which Mrs. Vanderbilt sought to get her daughter back from Mrs. Whitney. Instead he made Gloria a ward of the Supreme Court of New York, appointed Mrs. Whitney her custodian as the Court's representative. He ordered Mrs. Whitney to continue the child's schooling, maintain her "in a manner suitable to her fortune" ($2,800,000), provide a Roman Catholic governess who would instruct her in her mother's faith.* Gloria should never be taken out of New York State. She should visit her mother every week from 10 a. m. Saturday to sundown...
Coach Fesler has arranged to maintain a much larger Varsity squad this season to take care of the men who would ordinarily have played on the Junior Varsity. Those who are cut from the Varsity will be told to report to the House basketball teams...
...whether we truly desire war. In the case of Japan it is hard to visualize any peaceful release for her excessive population unless the other Pacific powers permit immigration. The comfortable American bourgeois regards preparations for a clash with righteous alarm, but it is his determination to maintain his standard of living against intruding economic elements which will precipitate a struggle...