Word: maintainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...depression has at once reduced the opportunities for self help and increased the demand upon such opportunity as does exist. To keep a college a cross section of the best in American life is therefore more difficult. But the difficulties only heighten the importance of proper steps to maintain our great universities as truly national institutions. The Harvard National Scholarships, designed to attract men of the most promising qualities from every state in the Union, should enhance further Harvard's great influence in the training of each generation to take its part in our democracy...
...limitation of liberty which might result. Nothing could be clearer than that the New Deal, which has successfully muzzled the radio and which sought to hamper the freedom of the press, is reaching out its tentacles toward education. It is good to know that in the fight to maintain intellectual freedom this first of American universities is standing guard. New York Herald Tribune...
Since a great and ruthless effort will now be made to maintain the value of the ruble in Russia at 20?,* the State further decreed last week: 1) that all "Torgsin Stores'' which have sold goods in Russia for foreign currency exclusively are abolished as of Dec. 15; 2) that all foreign tourists, who have hitherto been discouraged by every means from the use of rubles (for fear they might have got them at "black bourse" rates), are from now on compelled to make all purchases in Russia with rubles bought at the State Bank...
...There has been some criticism of smoking by Radcliffe students, particularly on the steps of Fogg Museum, Widener Library, and the Harvard Music Building. The members of the Dean's Advisory Committee wish to bring the matter to your attention in an effort to prevent friction and to maintain our relations with Harvard on a mutually pleasant basis...
...Mather repeated his opposition, which he has consistently maintained, to the spirit behind the statute, not to the oath itself. "Certainly as a teacher of geology," he said yesterday, "It is necessary for me to maintain cultural relations with Soviet geologists." This privilege he further retained in the reservations...