Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This disastrous overcrowding of Widener is not the only reason Boylston should be reopened immediately. Widener fails to maintain the traditionally smooth organization of courses like History 1. Although books are being brought over as they are needed, the History, Government, and Economics department is besieged with the complaints of disappointed book-seekers. And the staff in the larger library is not so patient with the Freshmen as the men in Boylston were. In Boylston the full paraphernalia of assignments, maps and Shepherds were easily accessible. Now even the textbooks have to be dug out from the material of dozens...
...economic tragedy is as deep for their customers as it is for the exporters. To maintain its transportation system Brazil in 1940 imported 1.3 million tons of coal, nine million barrels of oil and gasoline. Though approximately 70% of all shipping from the U.S. to South America's east coast is carrying coal as cargo, Brazil gets only a fraction of her needs. Tankers seldom visit her ports. No private automobiles ride the once busy streets of Rio and Sao Paulo, bus schedules have been slashed, many vital rail services are cut by half, other routes suspended. Even wood...
...when Canadian advance units and English troops come to Dieppe, and when they are able to maintain themselves for nine hours, only to be annihilated completely, then that is an encouraging and most astonishing sign of the inexhaustible victorious strength of the British Empire...
Finland has one of World War II's most difficult diplomatic positions to maintain. Internally her fighting strength is being bled white by two wars in three years. Her economy is disrupted by blockade, her people dissatisfied. Letters from1 soldiers complain of German pressure at home, bad food and living conditions. Some are bitter over wives and sweethearts consorting with German soldiers...
...contemplate any reduction in the number of hours of required physical exercise. In fact, we regard it as a duty to students and to the country to maintain as effective a program as possible. Although various official statements express some difference of opinion concerning the part which the colleges should play in the training of students in war time, all the information which has arrived from the Army and Navy and from other bodies in Washington agree in emphasizing the importance of the physical conditioning of students. Those who are responsible for the administration of the program at Harvard feel...