Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thayer Middle chalked up its fifth straight win in Yard touch football yesterday to maintain its lead in the American League. At the same time, Straus mustered enough men to win by forfeit over an exam-ridden Lionel team and thus cinch a tie for the National League crown...
...While the danger of war is vivid, partly because of these crises, I am certain we shall stand by our arms. But if this cold war becomes a war of boredom where the danger is shrewdly concealed, then our resolution may be tested by our willingness to maintain arms. If we fall victim to boredom and risk curtailment of our armed strength, we shall destroy the world's only sturdy barricade against the danger of aggression...
...wrong. But they claim that new and frightening threats have developed recently. The present-day world, they say, has no fresh lands (or almost none) to cultivate. Its old lands, "plundered" by reckless exploitation, are losing fertility as their "irreplaceable topsoil" washes down the rivers. Farmlands cannot maintain their present production. The world's population is still increasing rapidly, and modern medicine, by cutting the death rate from infectious diseases, is sure to quicken this increase. The falling food-production curve, cry the Neo-Malthusians, will soon cross the rising population curve. Then-kaput...
...maintain with Henry Wallace that the Draft is only one more step in the drive toward war in the part of the bankers and general who control our government's policy. We further assert that Mr. Conant's universal military training program lends them considerable encouragement from noted civilian sources to continue their war program. Harvard Committee for Wallace
...present the squad is two or three deep at every position and has the material for winning teams for the next few years--if the men on the squad are kept our for wrestling. Only adequate recognition will maintain a high degree of competition on the Varsity level. Only the formation of a Jayvee schedule will keep the second and third strings out for practice...