Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Will the musical comedy ever give way to the operette? I should say not. The operette comes and goes, as it did twenty years ago and as it is doing now, but the musical comedy will always maintain its place in the hearts of the amusement-loving public. Amusement is essential to the average man's diet, and good wholesome amusement is best presented in the musical comedy...
What influence the professional game may have on the college game remains to be seen. Some claim that it will injure its standing, while others maintain that it will be an aid to keeping interest up. Just now the college game appears to have gone beyond the control of the educational authorities, and there is a clamor in some quarters to curb the sport and place it on a rational basis. The subject is receiving considerable attention at Harvard University, and the daily paper of that college has even suggested that the professional game will do much to accomplish this...
...decision of the Committee as regards Polo will mean the definite establishment of a sport which has been in a precarious financial position. This fall the members of last year's championship team, all of whom returned to the University this year, voted to maintain Polo for Harvard at their own expense. The expense of equipment, ponies, and a playing field have been a heavy burden on the players, although it is believed by Captain C. F. Clark, coach of the Crimson four, that the game will amply support itself if stands are erected...
Ergo, Señor Leguía is even now forced to maintain an elaborate system of private guards and espionage to protect his life. Often it has been asked whether such an absolutist can justify his rule. Always Leguía has been able to point to his signal achievements in administering the finances of the republic and extending its commercial prosperity. Today he is in the habit of asserting that the national debt of Peru is smaller per capita than that of any other nation. Often he remarks with satisfaction upon the large investments of U. S. capital...
...other party agrees. The 48 other States, have been kind enough to arrange that for us, as they did for Germany and Russia and Turkey. But it is not being suggested that we agree to use the Court. It is suggested only that we agree to help to maintain it, that we agree to pay some $40,000 a year to help to pay its bills. We should gain the privilege of participating more fully in the choice of the judges. Our consent would be necessary for amending the Court's statute. But we should not be taking...