Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Henry M. Wriston of Brown University declared: "If . . . the war ends with a genuine peace and a proper organization to maintain it, compulsory military training might be too great a waste in an already overtaxed economy and educational program...
...every garage, a home in the country, a penthouse, and an egg in his beer, has, in our opinion, failed to deal with a question which is destined to present one of the most controversial issues of the postwar world. To wit: Will the returning G.I. be able to maintain the same balance of power in his home that he enjoyed in the halcyon days, or will the female of the species assert herself and declare the "old order" relegated to the limbo of nostalgic memories? . . . Upon settlement of this question rests the stability of the state and the determination...
While the 1943 crop was below the 1938-42 average, 1944-5 crop is expected to top last year's by 20%. Thus manu facturers can continue to draw on present stocks and continue to maintain production at record-breaking levels, while the U.S. continues to smoke more than ever...
Evidence Enough. In addition to his other abilities, Novikov is a diplomat. Some of his best men, whom he could have used in executive capacities at home, he sent to Washington to maintain a polite but steady pressure for an evergrowing supply of Lend-Lease planes to Russia. The U.S. terminus at Great Falls, Mont., from which aircraft are flown to Russia by the Alaska-Siberia route, is now sending off equipment at the rate of many thousand planes a year. Guesses at current Soviet production are usually in the range of 30,000 planes a year. These figures...
...Vatican was interested. A pontifical commission for the improvement of Soviet-Vatican relationships showed new activity. For its part, Moscow set up a Council on Affairs of Religious Bodies. Its job: to maintain contact between the Soviet Government and various religious groups, including the Roman Catholics...