Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither do the American people choose to maintain their own peace (let alone the peace of the world) by force of arms alone...
...theory, generalizations, background. Colgate is aware that its new plan will require "dynamic materials." (Samples: a course in economics may begin with a visit to the New York Stock Exchange; a course in public affairs with attendance at New York State Legislature sessions in Albany.) The faculty will also maintain an intensive preceptorial system to give personal help on the side. To make up for the high percentage (two-fifths) of class hours which the Core will absorb, Colgate will encourage its applicants to come fully prepared in basic language and composition requirements, so that less time will have...
...Aimone was nominated to the throne of the new puppet kingdom of Croatia. But never did a mouse give a trap wider berth than the new Tomislav II gave his kingdom. He preferred to frolic in Florence. With the armistice Aimone joined the Italian Navy, but managed to maintain his heavy social schedule...
...pleased me more." A grandson of Emerson, Forbes was like Santayana's other Boston friends whose lives illustrated the decline of the age of great merchants. "They were in one sense its ripe fruits, but in another sense they marked the dissolution of that economy, its incapacity to maintain itself for more than three generations. Either their fortune was inadequate, or their virtue was inadequate, or their health and stamina were inadequate. Gently, or sadly, or cynically, they had to bow themselves off the stage...
...embarrassing fact is that the U.S. and British governments would just as soon finish off the Japs without Russia's valuable but hardly indispensable help. Their reason is that the peace in Asia would be a lot easier to make and maintain if Russia were not at the Pacific peace table. Actually, of course, Russia would have her say in an Asiatic peace anyhow. Now, whether she goes to the lengths of actual war with Japan or not, Russia will have a direct and powerful hand in the shaping of that peace. The U.S., Britain and their Asiatic ally...