Word: maintainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...military occupation of China, I believe our major task is about completed.* It is probable that we will not maintain a very large army there. Normal trade will be resumed as soon as the military operations . . . are concluded...
...gesture on the eve of Hitler's Reichstag speech, conscription was primarily important in signalizing another break in Britain's traditions, another change in the status of British labor, another change in the status of British arms. For 70 years British practice has been to maintain a complementary unit in England for every Army unit required overseas. In theory each regiment has a battalion at home and one abroad, the home battalion training men to replace soldiers whose active service has expired. In comparison with this smooth machine, involving a minimum number of men in training...
...With more general stories, more action shots than ever before, and we hope with a completely different cover. The Album will withal maintain its essential dignity," stated Robert M. Banker, Album Committee Chairman. According to Bunker, a new feature of the Album, will be the institution of more general articles, one on the history of the class by Frank P. Davidson and William N. Chambers, one on the progress which education has made at Harvard in the last four years, one by Cleveland Amory on the four years athletic record of the Class of '39, and one on the House...
...rivalry between the Haves and the Havenots, between the countries struggling to keep what they have and the countries struggling to expand. Or they see it as the clash of rival ideologies or of rival imperialists, with a vast segment of the world looking to Great Britain to maintain order while protecting her remote dominions, and another segment threatening to block her channels of communication with them. Or they see it as a problem of overpopulation in the crowded centres of the world, the masses of Europe and Japan swelling and pressing against the barriers that block them from...
...fluid, said Dr. Davis, cannot be given to patients who need red blood corpuscles, but only to those who suffer from shock due to loss of blood and who need to maintain a normal amount of fluid in circulation. It must be sterilized, filtered and typed, just like ordinary blood. Transfusions have been given to nine patients suffering from such diverse ailments as kidney infections, alcoholism, malaria, cancer and gunshot wounds. One man even acted as his own dropsy donor, when Dr. Davis removed 34 ounces of fluid from his stomach, promptly pumped them back into...