Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Massachusetts to California, from Soledad to South Africa, Harvard scientists maintain their science stations, studying everything from earthquakes to bryophites...
...market has held at the delicate and fateful 96 level (Dew, Jones), which we predicted it would reach several weeks ago. Traders are on pine and needier because every indication is that it cannot maintain this tightrope position for very long and that a sharp movement may be expected as a matter of the next few trading hours. It is the business of predicting the direction of the movement that has the experts worried. Unless prices, immediately push up through that tricky 96 level, a reaction to the 90-92 point may be expected. Repeating our advice of last week...
...national commander of the American Legion, one Edward A. Hayes, has again attacked Pacifism, Communism, un-Americanism (whatever that may be), and Radicalism. At the Miami jamboree he has also showed his displeasure with the American Veterans Association and the National Economy League because of their efforts to maintain the credit of the United States by bridling the porkbarrelism which these professed patriots wish to engage in to such an almost unlimited extent. In spite of their Americanism, which they loudly and self-righteously proclaim, the Legionaires would like to see the money in the Treasury portioned out to them...
...Public Library has a $50,000,000 endowment and is subsidized by the City of New York to maintain 48 branch libraries. Its best collections are those on baseball, poultry, the theatre, Americana, Shakespeare, Milton, Bunyan and Isaak Walton. With 12,000 people in & out every day, its central building is probably the world's busiest...
...been noticed by impartial observers. There is no reason why admission requirements for the Graduate School should be any less stringent than those for A.B. or S.B. candidates. To eliminate this bugbear of graduate students, and to reduce the present mortality among inadequately prepared men, the Administration should maintain strictly the language requirements for admission to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...