Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military tactics and naval gunnery are "academic subjects" by only the remotest stretch of the imagination, that history and literature concentrators who are hustled out of college by the credits they received for Army training in mathematics and electronics have not quite achieved their educational goals. But they maintain the position that the sacrifice of a few terms of those men's careers is the lesser of two evils, a necessary method f making room for other worthy suitors for Harvard's opportunities...
...presumably is not good enough for the United States either. Without becoming entangled in the legalistic niceties of the veto question, it would seem that Russia's refusal to budge on this point does not stem from some dangerous plan of aggression but rather from her desire to maintain her sovereignty or nationalistic identity for want of a better policy. Similarly, the United States has shown no readiness to submit her control of Pacific bases or the Panama Canal to international control without a veto. And Great Britain would be offended if it was suggested that the UN have final...
Although existing, a s a class, in name only, it will be through the Permanent Committee that members of '47 will maintain contact with each other and with the University, and it will be the elected editorial board that will publish the '47 Album...
Unable to maintain the large house after the death of her husband, Mrs. Hicks later moved her family two streets north to the present Winthrop Street. The house, now a relic at the tender age of twenty-two, was allowed to fall into disrepair. A new owner was found, Foxcroft by name, who enlarged the building with an ell to the back that included a kitchen that new houses Kirkland's collection on political theory...
...effect, the other nations gave the U.S., and the incoming Republicans, until next summer, when U.N. will discuss specific tariff cuts, to prove that the U.S. can and will 1) maintain a reasonably stable economy and 2) practice to the fullest the free trade it preaches. In turn, the U.S. hopes that by then nations which are either wholly or in part state traders, e.g., Russia, which did not attend the conference, and Britain (see Commodities), can somehow reconcile their ideas with those...