Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...created. The total of British trade was further swelled by shipping, banking and insurance services rendered, and British balances were kept fat by interest and principal payments on money lent abroad. Gold tended to accumulate in English hands, simply because a more advanced country finds itself able to maintain a higher rate of saving...
...failure of each element hastened the failure of the others, but two failures were probably basic, and both were compounded by U.S. refusal to take any responsibility in world affairs. More important of these two was the failure of the delegated authority of the League of Nations to maintain peace and the prospect of peace, as the British Navy unfettered had maintained...
Final authority in all matters has been turned over by the former student editors to a Graduate Board. This has been done to maintain the continuity of the paper and to keep it from becoming a simple organ of the services or the University...
...Logical action is only a bit player on the political stage. > The chief players are the elite and the non-elite-the Lions (plus the Foxes) and the Rabbits. > The majority are incapable of self-rule. > The object of every elite is to maintain its power...
Strong Objections to such unification proposals will come from European nationalists, legalists and "realists" who maintain that Europe has always been hopelessly divided, always will be. With out blinking their arguments, FORTUNE describes Europe as the United Nations will probably find it on the day of deliverance. "An atomized social structure. An economic system which, though primarily Germanized, is also partly Europeanized . . . bloodthirsty hatred of all Germans . . . readiness for civil war. . . . Physical hunger; and a widespread cynicism...