Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public has rights, to be sure, but a right involves a duty. I say that it is the public's duty not to allow men to be overworked under bad conditions, and underpaid, so that they cannot maintain decent living standards." Mr. Morrison pointed to the fact that even in periods of the most extreme unemployment, nothing has ever been done to alleviate the situation. He maintained that labor;s only recourse is in strengthening union organizations for more effective collective bargaining, and in political activity to secure remedial legislation...
...Estimating our national wealth as $400,000,000,000, we have only one soldier for each $2,500,000. The following nations maintain one soldier for the following amounts of their wealth...
...position of the Marx Government was that it had already alienated the Nationalists by refusing them a place in the Cabinet. The Socialists openly refused to back Marx, but there was some hope that they would recant and maintain a dutiful neutrality. This means that the Government can count upon 193 votes to 87 from the Opposition, but if the Socialists should decide to oppose Chancellor Marx, the Government will immediately find itself in a minority; in any case it will be at the tender mercies of the Socialists...
...will feel that he has failed to look beyond the surface. But the fundamental criticism, which has been brought by others as well as Dr. Gray, remains a very real indictment. American universities supported by the state and philanthropic individuals, must answer this charge if they wish to maintain their right of existence. American students must answer if they wish to justify their right to a college education...
Although modern charts, unlike the old "T"--maps of the Middle Ages, are no longer encircled with the horrors lying in wait for the unfortunate who voyaged too far into the unknown, and although explorers of the present can maintain radio contact with the world outside, the fascination of the Far North still remains. When Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, who speaks this afternoon at the Union, made his historic voyage in the "Fram" over a generation ago, which took him neither the Pole than any other explorer had ever been, he travelled without wireless, and for months completely out of touch...