Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be able to enter fewer and fewer men, and that those who do succeed in passing their entrance examinations will either soon be dropped out or stay in only because of laborious efforts, which, in most cases will be grudgingly made for the sake of being able to maintain a standing in athletics or other outside activities...
...Class Poem, 1924, by Oliver La Farge. I wonder whether the author has been reading Edwin Arlington Robinson's poems; certainly he has caught something of that master's pattern and manner, his directness, his vigor, his telling expressiveness. Naturally enough Mr. La Farge has been unable to maintain the exquisite balance of form and substance that makes Robinson's best poems so exactly right, so stark and simple and inevitable; yet when Mr. La Farge falters into prose, his idea gives sufficient impetus to rush the reader along. Without lapsing into "balderdash" on the one hand or the "sour...
...Inasmuch as the successful working of this agreement depends upon the strict observance of all rules herein contained, each club member shall consider it a matter of honor to maintain such rules...
...exercise the independence represented by doing one's own thinking, to match the sane mind with the sound body, to maintain a reverent spirit of religion--these were points emphasized by Dr. Hopkins in his counsel to the young men assembled before him. He warned them of the danger of "parrot thinking," the acceptance of plausible but misleading theories, such as often find exponents in any community; and while he spoke to an academic community, his words had application to a greater field. Certainly there have been few seasons in the national experience when the need of clear thinking...
...Cecil Hurst, legal ad- viser to the Foreign Office, "dropped a naval bomb" into the Assembly, when he declared that Great Britain would accept the principle of compulsory arbitration provided that she were not brought into Court because of some act of her Navy performed in attempting to maintain or restore peace. His speech mightily pleased the French, who subsequently agreed unconditionally to the principle of arbitration in international disputes...