Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present, the men take turns with the hammer. The hammer drives planks, which form the walls of the dam, deep into the stream bed. The driver sees that the planks maintain their position under water, and the rowboat serves the diver and all others who fall into the river...
...With their 69 seats the Democrats will have a majority in that body-even if they lose every Democratic Senator who comes up for re-election-until Jan. 3, 1939. Granting that Democrats are elected to the Senate from the eleven States of the Solid South, the party can maintain a Senate majority until Jan. 3, 1941 by holding in 1936 or 1938 only eight other seats in normally doubtful States. Result: If a Republican President should succeed Mr. Roosevelt in 1937, he would have a hostile Senate on his hands throughout his four years in the White House...
...have but one goal-to fight against misery and unemployment; to restore the national economy; to maintain strong public finances; to rejuvenate and reform the State...
Orating last week, Multiplex President Mussolini stressed once again the primacy of production. "The Fascist Revolution will maintain the principle of the equality of all individuals before the State." he cried, "and will add another: the equality of all individuals in their obligation to work as a social duty...
...breezy, detailed memorandum on business, politics, public sentiment in his section. The editors select three or four of the most interesting reports, have them mimeographed by a process which reproduces their exact original form (color of copy paper and typewriter ink, marginal notes, penciled corrections, etc.). To maintain the illusion of inside confidence, the scribbled initials of CC (Colebaugh), B (Editorial Director Thomas Hambly Beck) and WLC (Editor William Ludlow Chenery) appear at the top of each report. The week's selections are stapled together, bound in a bright colored wrapper, sealed with paper tape. In bold letters...