Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Industry. Many Soviet industries still maintain a vague air of being on parade. Generally, however, manufacturers seem to lack capital and raw materials rather than customers. A visit to the offices of the All Russian Textile Syndicate gives the impression that that industry, at least, is being run at a profit along U. S. lines. Typewriters bang, executives hold conferences, work moves forward with all the earmarks of babbittry...
...Oxford debaters: R. H. Bernays, an Englishman; H. J. S. Wedderburn, a Scot; H. V. Lloyd-Jones, a Welshman. Each of the three was president of the Oxford Union (debating society) for a term last year. Each is already active in British politics. At Harvard and Princeton they will maintain that the growth and activities of the Socialist movement are detrimental to social progress." At Colgate, Bates and the University of Pennsylvania, they will denounce Prohibition. Elsewhere their proposition will be in regard to the World Court and recognition of Russia...
...meeting yesterday those present, who will make up the squad for fall, practice, pledged themselves to maintain polo as a sport at Harvard and voted that the expense of maintaining it should be divided equally between the members of the squad. The membership of the squad will be limited, it was decided, to 20 members...
...Fall provided that they care for the upkeep of the field. With the guarantee of money for the care of the field outdoor Fall practice becomes a surety. The release of the team from the prospect of indoor Fall practice will do much, Col. Clark promised the team, to maintain the form which the team showed last spring and summer...
...recommendation of the Premier in power when a seat falls vacant. In the past there has been a majority of Conservative Premiers, who the Liberals claim have stuffed the Senate with old-foggyism. They will ask the electorate for power to "end or mend" the Senate. Conservatives will maintain that Solons of the Senate's present calibre would not stoop to campaign for their seats, would abandon the Senate to featherbrains, if not honored as they deserve for life...