Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liquid-cooled Allison- a power plant which has been the subject and victim of more controversy than any other single element in the U.S. fighter picture. According to combat pilots recently back from fighting fronts, the Allison now going into U.S. Army fighters is reliable, efficient, easy to maintain, a good engine within its limits. Its main limit is that it does not deliver enough power above medium altitudes...
Describing his bureau's job, William C. Herrington, head of the branch here, said, "Our three-fold purpose is to find out the conditions of marine fisheries, to find the cause of any poor conditions we may uncover, and to develop proper remedial management means to increase and maintain good fishing yields...
...able to see through to the essence of confusing regulations and complicated legal problems are sought eagerly both for corporative practice and for vital jobs within the war machine itself. A few of these jobs are: 1) Judge-Advocate branches of the Army and Navy which enforce and maintain military discipline. 2) Army and Navy supply branches to negotiate contracts and interpret regulations. 3 F.B.I. investigators for whom legal training is essential. 4) Deputy United States Marshals who enforce Federal rules and decrees of Federal courts 5) Legal advisors to interpret orders and legislation governing all war production. 6) Administrators...
Newcomer Thumper carries most of Bambi's comedy. Just a normal growing bunny, he won't eat his greens, and adds sly innuendoes to the maxims his mother makes him recite. As court jester to Bambi, who is a prince and must maintain a reasonable reserve, he is very funny. His inability to keep his itching foot from vibrating while making love to the beauteous Mrs. Thumper is great slapstick. So is the skating lesson he gives Bambi. "Come on," he coaxes, "the water's stiff...
Scorning all landlubbers who look upon racing as sitting in a puddle in the bottom of a boat, the yachtsmen stoutly maintain that holding a mainsheet is just as much work as pulling...