Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether or not tweed-coated civilians can maintain the same concentration required of G.I. students in the intensive teaching program is being widely debated, but Harvard is taking the experimental plunge...
...182No let-up in British austerity. Almost every dollar will go for food (to maintain minimum rations) or raw materials (to get factories going). Last week clothes-short Britons heard that all their silks and high-grade woolens would be reserved for export...
Walls of Suspicion. It was difficult to maintain even the lowest of these levels, partly because four-power rule in Germany did not work. Though Potsdam had called for treatment of Germany as an economic unit, the four zones were still four separate states with virtually no trade between them...
...Council composed of the President as chairman and, as members, the chairman of a National Security Resources Board and the Secretaries of State, War, Navy-and Air, if Congress (said the Navy) really believes such a post should be created. The Council would control the machinery of national defense, maintain coordination between the agencies responsible for foreign and military policies, and be all-powerful in making decisions...
There was Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, who sat stony-faced, trying to maintain the comfortably superior attitude of an officer and a gentleman. His was the first sobering shock: the prosecution's account (compiled from German Navy archives) of his pre-Hitler (1932) efforts to rebuild the German Navy in defiance of Versailles. The record read: German submarines had been constructed in Spain and Finland; crews had been trained in The Netherlands...