Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today ATC has some 50,000 men to fly and service its planes, maintain its far-flung bases, forecast the weather, operate its communications system. In the words of their chief, "All of them are too young and too dumb to know what's impossible, so they do it." They are only the beginning of the force ATC will have by year's end. By then Hal George will, be able to say, with even more conviction than he does now, that ATC will have laid the pattern for something more than winning the war. It will also...
...founded in 1908, did not disband during the last war and intends to maintain its unbroken record of American premiers throughout the duration of this one. Starting with such charter members as H. V. Kaltenborn '09, Robert Benchley '12, and Charles W. Putnam '11, the club's roster has been brightened in the past 35 years with the names of George Abbott, John Dos Passos '16, and Kenneth MacGowan...
...There are many reasons why students have failed so miserably in the past several years to maintain creditable scholastic standing and make sound academic records. . . . The present generation has been weaned on the comic strip. It has absorbed huge, indigestible amounts of outrageously inane (for the most part) Hollywood movie fare. It has been given cheap, miserably lean radio entertainment. In short, the younger generation hasn't been given half a chance to improve itself mentally...
...greater number of visual cells. In this dimple, common to the vertebrates with the highest acuity (some birds have two in each eye), there are no rod cells. The cones are slim and tight-packed. The other common denominator is the mechanism for accommodation-ability to focus the eye, maintain a sharp image of a moving object...
...Lampoon, humorous magazine whose production is actually handled by a small group of wits, will not feel the man-power shortage so acutely, and a competition held early in the summer term is expected to lure enough new funsters to maintain publication throughout the summer. The chief need is for cartoonists, and special inducement may be offered to jokers talented in this field...