Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last July, for the first time, monthly outgo crossed $1 billion. By January 1942 the $2 billion milepost whizzed by. In April the figure was $3.2 billions; an incredible billion-a-week total is in sight. To maintain a 50-50 ratio between borrowing and taxing to meet war costs, Henry the Morgue faced the job of selling about $25 billions a year of Treasury securities. Notion Counter...
...maximum of expert instruction and the rest who slide through Harvard with a maximum of snap courses. That Harvard gives more honors degrees than any other university of its rank in the country is due directly to the uniformly high standard which the tutorial system has done much to maintain. Such a division of the students not only destroys the value of a degree; it is unwise and artificial. In the Class of 1935 for example, 24 of the 159 men who carried home honors degrees were in Group V and below their first two years. With many men staying...
Whilst I am writing to you, will you also allow me to mention the article [in TIME, April 27], entitled "Belgium's Finest," which speaks of Belgium as a "conquered" country, whereas all the Belgians maintain, and not unreasonably, that the country is occupied but certainly not conquered. This is of course a secondary point, inasmuch as all the Belgians are certainly very much pleased with the article...
...demand respect for his Church and flock. Then the Japs flew away and Bishop Wade ran the islands unmolested until last month, when they came in force and put him in jail. They soon learned that they could not govern with out him and set him free to maintain the peace...
...retrospect, the job he had tried to do seemed fantastic. To maintain the basic U.S. position, he had to insist that Japan get out of China and stay out of the East Indies, but he had no big stick. The Army & Navy wanted soft talk, to give them more time. So did the British, the Dutch. Mr. Hull could not explain to the U.S. public that oil and scrap iron shipped to Japan were not meant to purchase peace but to buy time. His position was made torture by public clamor for a "strong stand" and by Chinese pressure...