Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Battle, preferring to eke out a successful record for their team week by week. Locker-room strife at Indiana and Ohio State has been laid to just such indifference of the local "Yale" rivalries. The fact that Dick Harlow, working with much the same type of ex-servicemen, could maintain his team's morale, ignite it to the levels of Saturday's inspired first period--is evidence of the wizardry that Harvard men recognize as the heart of the Harlow system...
...from Welch, W. Vs. L. J. Brindley, Prosecutor's Investigator, said two union officials were shot as they tried to induce the operator of a small mine to close it. Officials have said that troops will be sent into the coal fields if necessary to maintain order...
What would decontrol do in the nation's most pressing shortage and biggest black market-housing? It would probably be impossible to maintain the $10,000 sales price ceiling on new houses-the nub of Wilson Wyatt's program for veterans' housing. Instead, the Housing Authority's emphasis might be put on incentives to construct low-rental units...
...Antarctic continent. Even with the tepid sun hovering for months above the horizon, it will still be a bleak region. Its peaks, soaring to a frigid 15,000 feet, have little need for "keep off" signs. Man cannot support himself in the Antarctic, but with elaborate precautions he can maintain himself there long enough to thaw out some of its deep-frozen secrets...
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov insisted for two and one half hours that the governor's authority to maintain law and order in the strategic port--to be inter-Balionalized by council order--should be subordinate to a council of government which would be appointed by the proposed elective assembly...