Word: maintainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of TIME, May 3, under Sport, your most interesting article has one or two discrepancies which might be of interest to you. In the first place, you state that "of the 19 U. S. colleges which maintain crews, 18 have Washington-trained oarsmen on their coaching staffs." Syracuse, Princeton, M. I. T. and the U. S. Naval Academy all have other than Washington-trained coaching staffs. Likewise to call the late Hiram B. Connibear a "grandfather" of U. S. crew racing is a little unfair to those men who promoted and took part in intercollegiate rowing long before...
...German and Russian clash might come and the Baltic would be the danger zone. Accordingly the Foreign Ministers of the Scandinavian countries continue to meet from time to time in the Swedish capital to discuss their ultimate aims-to get trade independence, to revert to their traditional neutrality, to maintain the democracy of the north. Though Denmark is one of Europe's most pacifist nations, the Danish Premier, bearded Social Democrat Thorvald Stauning, is beginning to see the sense of Sweden's dictum that disarmed neutrality is a practical impossibility. Denmark has long been disarmed to the point...
Swallowed as a tablet or inhaled as a gas, Benzedrine at first shrinks mucous membranes, raises blood pressure, quickens the heart, sharpens the wits. These effects are powerful enough to snap a schizophrenic out of his murky mentality (TIME, Sept. 14). Small doses of the drug maintain his intelligence. Overdoses, such as uninformed college students seem to be using, bring on dangerous after effects...
...University of Toronto, the dean of women, Marion Black Ferguson, tried another method to forestall the pep-pill fad among woman students. She sees that they maintain their wits and vigor by taking pills containing calcium and phosphorus, eating regularly, going to bed early...
...paid staff of lawyers, accountants and financial experts would analyze and evaluate new issues as applications were made to the SEC for listings.* Investors' Research would not only issue confidential bulletins to members but they would attend stockholders' and bondholders' meetings, play watchdog on corporate activities, maintain legislative lobbies to protect investors' interests at Washington and among the States...