Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late great Nicholas Longworth held for many a happy year. Speaker Longworth used to carry it effort lessly by 20,000 Republican votes. Last year, hard pressed by an aggressive young Democrat, he humped himself energetically, squeaked through with only 3,500 votes to spare. To succeed him and maintain the honor of "the Speaker's district'' Cincinnati Republicans nominated John Baker Hollister. Like Speaker Longworth, Nominee Hollister is a shining socialite of good old family, a Harvardman, a cultured and urbane gentleman. His law partners are the sons of President Taft, his home is in the Indian Hill section...
...Ours is a force of defense, not offense. To maintain forces less than that strength is to destroy national safety; to maintain greater forces is not only economic injury to our people but a threat against our neighbors. . . . Our problem is ... to prevent extremists on one side from undermining the public will to support our necessary forces and to prevent extremists on the other side from waste of public funds...
...serves to raise the question of just how much fealty the College can justifiably require from an individual outside Hanover walls. To what extent is the individual obligated? To what extremes may the College proceed to maintain a normal tone of decency among these undergraduates who, for the moment, are not clustered under the very flagstaff of the College's banner...
...Yale debaters, scorning such sophistry as this, said simply but pregnantly: "Yale has its traditions to maintain...
...below. But the amenities of the House Plan make all the more evident the discrepancy between the sheltered college and the world outside. Many men, particularly those holding scholarships, will find swift disillusionment when they discover that their carning capacity in the first year after graduation is insufficient to maintain the inflated standard of living to which they have become accustomed...