Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although very reluctant to enter upon this new policy, once tried the ship owners were very enthusiastic. They found it paid to maintain regular schedules at lower rates, with good service. Coincidently with this the government put its own steamers on unprofitable routes, that is, routes on which there was not enough freight offering to tempt commercial liners to undertake them. The idea was that the existence of this service would create a business and encourage production. It had this effect and within a marvelously short time after these routes were established business became so good that commercial concerns would...
None the less, Harvard cannot afford to maintain the school, successful as it undoubtedly is, under existing conditions; and the Corporation has rightly decided that those who are to benefit by it must come to its support. If the Business School really fulfils its purpose, this action on the part of the University will not decrease the demand for the training it offers, but will bring about a more effective operation of the school, especially if the much needed new building is obtained...
There can be little doubt that the prevailing fixed salary is all too low. Since it was established, times and business conditions have changed, making the reimbursement no longer adequate to maintain the high standard of our judiciary system. Its representatives should receive a salary sufficient to make extra-judicial efforts on their part unnecessary...
Like an ominous, glowing bed of coals, the Japanese crisis smoulders on, now fanned into a momentary flare by an incident such as the recent shooting in Vladivostok, now outwardly dampened by propagandists. No clear-thinking citizen can maintain that it is a local issue, restricted to California; the problem is one that affects the entire future of the United States and its immediate foreign policy...
...idea that the sole purpose of music is to arouse pleasant sensations through the auditory nerves, or to excite the risibilities by combination of silly words and puerile tunes. Against such an amateurish conception of a great and noble art, I, as a professional musician, emphatically protest, and I maintain that the efforts of a Harvard organization to place before the undergraduates a standard in the science of music, commensurate with the standards in other sciences, are worthy of the highest praise, and of the warmest support...