Word: maintainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dame is to intercollegiate football, the University of Washington (Seattle) is to intercollegiate rowing. Not only do practically all the racing shells used by U. S. college crews come from the tiny workshop of famed George Pocock on the Washington campus, but of the 19 U. S. colleges which maintain crews, 18 have Washington-trained oarsmen on their coaching staffs, eight have Washington-trained head coaches. Last week, the newest Washington-trained head coach made his debut as such in the first important event of the eastern rowing season. He was Tom Bolles of Harvard, appointed last autumn to replace...
...that he knew nothing about plans to cut the price of gold as a check on inflation. ¶ President Roosevelt, with Harry Hopkins at his side, gave audience to Governors Lehman of New York, Benson of Minnesota, La Follette of Wisconsin, Quinn of Rhode Island, who urged him to maintain WPA rolls at their present size (2,200,000), which would make Relief costs about $1,750,000,000 for fiscal 1938, unbalance the budget by about...
...among them a onetime Canadian Northwest "Mountie," a onetime department store manager, a onetime railway construction engineer, a onetime civil engineer, a World War aviator-labor daily in their fields and cowbarns. Save when all of them sing their psalms, recite their orisons, or when a few of them maintain necessary contacts with outsiders, these Cistercians speak no word, communicate their needs to one another in sign language. Like their famed but less ancient brother order, the Trappists, they are vowed to silence, poverty, chastity, obedience. Humbly, courteously they welcome and wait upon visitors, accepting alms from the world-weary...
...casual reader of the financial columns must prepare himself for an extraordinary amount of nonsense out of Washington," wrote the New York Herald Tribune's cynical Edward H. Collins. "If present conditions maintain, for example, there is every reason to expect that in the next few weeks the rate of finished and unfinished steel production will be far exceeded, proportionally, by the amount of finished and unfinished balderdash emanating from the President and such alter-egoes as Mr. Eccles and Mr. Morgenthau...
...with extraordinary partiality toward those who were culpable . . . [officials who] had supinely allowed the burning of churches, private houses, offices and workshops before the eyes of a passive and impotent public. . . . The regime was that of Parliamentarianism gone mad. . . . The extremists of the Popular Front knew well how to maintain themselves without the Cabinet. The latter was nothing more than a pliable instrument, the mere plaything of the real power...