Word: maintainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acting, the honors are all Von Stroheim's. The former stormy petrol of Hollywood has in exile created a far greater characterization than ever he did before. His performance would seem to be the one great thing of "Grand Illusion." Although neither plot, treatment, direction, or his fellow actors maintain the superbly high standard that Von Stroheim sets, the picture is far above average...
...Evans and others convinced many a gland man that the pituitary secreted a "growth hormone." Riddle's researches, however, tend to show that growth is a synergic response to two hormones, thyrotropin and prolactin. He also believes that this same pair get together in another synergism to maintain body heat...
...public debt, more 'wasteful' than the expenditures in the late twenties, based upon private debt, whereby billions of dollars were diverted to uncollectable foreign loans and to build at inflated prices huge skyscrapers, office buildings and apartment houses, many of which have never been sufficiently occupied to maintain the investment...
...Declaration of Lima, a sort of interlocking Monroe Doctrine for all American nations, declares that the American States "reaffirm their continental solidarity and their purpose to collaborate in the maintenance of the principles upon which solidarity is based"; that they "reaffirm their decision to maintain and defend them against all foreign intervention"; that whenever a crisis arises any American country can call for a meeting of all the other signers...
...other words, in the main they were wash sales to create a profit that did not exist, and what is missing is the alleged profits plus expenses and blackmail money paid to maintain...