Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national debate, and they certainly should not be confused with "skeptics" who question U.S. policy. Responsible critics of the Administration advocate neither unilateral disarmament nor withdrawal from foreign alliances. They merely raise the questions of what are the proper tactics and what is the bearable cost of helping maintain world order...
...lawyers, three of them with extensive financial interests which have been repeatedly publicized by radicals, serve on the Corporation; the fifth Fellow, A.L. Nickerson, is a Republican from New York who heads the Mobil oil company. With the exception of the youngest Fellow, Hugh Calkins from Cleveland, the Fellows maintain nearly identical life-styles in a select and self-contained world. For example, they share membership in the same exclusive clubs in Boston and New York; although Samuel Eliot Morison, who wrote authoritative histories of Harvard, reported that 'no religious test has ever existed for membership in the Corporation...
...doors to the Houghton remain closed in order to maintain constant temperature and humidity for the collection. Most students have never been inside--and it's too bad because the Houghton Library is a magical, enchanted place, the home of the University's rare books and manuscripts...
...Administration ran into another Federal funding problem. The National Science Foundation turned down Harvard's request to restore some of the money cut out of the 1969 NSF budget. Harvard said the money was necessary to maintain "a liveable level of project research...
...misunderstands the Lampoon if he thinks of it as a publication. Aside from being a tax-free museum which opens its doors once a year to maintain this status (but never announces that one date), it is primarily a club. Its members pay dues, which are munched away at the extravagant banquets served around a long table in the high-arched chandelier-strung main hall...