Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Cairo, declared that all was well, that plans were already being draughted for two one-story buildings to stand on the island of Gezira, opposite Cairo's richest residential quarter. These are to cost about five and a half millions, the balance of the gift being banked to maintain them...
Said President Vauclain: "Throughout the year difficulty was experienced in obtaining, at any price, sufficient business to operate our workshops and maintain an irreducible minimum organization. Trade relations with foreign countries were sustained and improved. Workshops and machinery have been fully maintained and the transfer of equipment and operations from our works in Philadelphia to Eddystone continued. Your management considers the outlook favorable for a satisfactory business throughout the year...
This history began with the foundation of Pomona College in 1888. A local population with New England antecedents made it possible for Pomona in the midst of the booming, expanding West, with the tenth largest city in the U. S. (today) close at hand, to adopt and maintain the characteristics of a "small college," like Amherst and Williams, Knox and Antioch. Intimacy, hospitality and the individuality of teacher and taught are prime among these characteristics When popularity and population pressure increased, Pomona firmly fixed 700 as its maximum enrollment figure. Rigid selection of entrants was enforced...
Mark Requa of San Francisco predicted an oil famine in 1934 if new discoveries and improved methods do not come in. Walter C. Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey deprecated any great danger, pointed to new saving methods. Henry L. Doherty, gas expert, maintained oil was being burned wastefully, produced wastefully. His researches show that oil pools should be operated as units to maintain below ground the pressure of gasses dissolved in petroleum, making it more fluid. Much oil is now lost on subterranean sands whence it cannot be extracted because of its viscosity when released from gas pressure...
President Loebe of the Reichstag seized the heavy bell with which it is given him to attempt to maintain order and during most of the week rang it until his arm ached...