Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francis Bacon.) Bacon, how can the magistrate maintain his authority, if the man be despised...
...Committees of Experts (see REPARATIONS). "After this inquiry," said he, "the experts will indicate to the Reparation Commission the payments that they think Germany can make during the period of preparation for the larger payments. It is for the Reparation Commission then to make the decisions which will maintain the peace of the world; to fix the figures for the German annuities until 1926, and to examine the possibility of floating loans guaranteed by the products of the controlled guarantees...
...letter to a resident of Springfield, Mass., ex-President Wilson expressed disappointment in me. Said he: 'I feel obliged to say . . . that Senator David I. Walsh has proved a great disappointment to all Democrats who sincerely believe in the high principles he has so signally failed to maintain...
Despite her defeat by Helen Wills (TIME, Aug. 27), the U. S. L. T. A. had counted on Molla Mallory to maintain by her long tournament experience the morale of the 1924 American Olympic tennis team. Despite the fact that she had competed for Norway in the 1912 Olympics, the U. S. L. T. A. had applied (TIME, Jan. 14) for special exception to the rule which prohibits an entrant who has competed for one country from competing for another...
...could speak neither for the American Government nor for the American people, Mr. Dawes added: "But as an individual, I read in shame and humiliation the outpourings of the American nationalistic demagogues who undertake to lecture Europe in order to lift themselves into some petty office or to maintain their political popularity...