Word: maintainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks ago the Philippines were given their second offer of freedom. But still all was not well. Some of the President's advisers wanted to knock down the tariff barriers, thereby administering a death blow to the beet industry as too inefficient and costly a luxury to maintain at the expense of the country at large. At this suggestion, a howl of anger went up from the representatives of beet sugar states...
...Church of the Holy Sepulchre is actually in custody of a Moslem family, but six Christian sects maintain and hold services in it: Greek Orthodox, Latin, Armenian, Coptic, Jacobite and Abyssinian. The Church of the Nativity is surrounded by convents of Greek, Latin and Armenian Churches, whose disputes over the rights to the sanctuary have been going on for centuries...
...Japan is endeavoring to maintain and enhance friendly relations with foreign nations, but Japan considers that, to keep peace and order in East Asia, she must act single-handed and on her own responsibility. Japan considers that no other country except China is in a position to share that responsibility...
Directed in the vivid, light style of Rene Clair and Ernst Lubitsch, the French film is a musical romance which manages to maintain its delightful simplicity and humor, although it does show a definite Hollywood influence by including a chorus scene of the standard Busby Herkeley type. Excellent photography and really amusing sequences more than atone for the nature of the plot, which is too juvenile to justify elucidation...
...Overseers, at its last meeting, completed arrangements to elect annually a group of sixty men which would represent the entire faculty and which could assume some of the administrative duties now being performed by committees. The primary importance of such a group, however, lies in its ability to maintain close contact with the president through frequent meetings and so would increase materially the reach and unity of the central executive power...