Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beyond that, some prognosticators fore saw a deep depression, perhaps beginning in 1949. Most private analysts were more confident, believed that housing and for eign trade would help maintain a high level. There was no mistaking the bullish enthusiasm of most businessmen...
...asking Dartmouth's President Hopkins to "accept unexamined the great blocks of Jewish applications which come in." Let him subject them and the candidates from all other American groups, great and small, to as rigorous academic tests as are required to maintain the standards of Dartmouth. But let the "restricted enrollment" be determined by competition in those tests, and not by racial, sectional, religious, or any other quota-for which there is no real justification other than an arbitrary, antidemocratic prejudice...
...guilt they seemed to feel not at all. Some students of Japanese history maintain that in ancient and modern Japanese ethics there is no sense of guilt. Sin and catastrophe are in the same category. The war's disastrous end was grievous as earthquakes had been grievous. Defeat polluted but did not necessarily shame; it called, perhaps, for "purification," but not for repentance and atonement...
...book will not be so elaborate as preceding Albums," Blanchard continued, "since many of the activities had closed down and no pictures could be taken of them. But the book will still maintain pre-war appearance, and it will still be a custom...
...open challenge to the Central Government. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek met Yenan's defiance with a crackling reassertion of his acknowledged (but nominal) authority over all China, Free and Communist. To General ChuTeh he wired: Communist forces "must remain in their posts and wait for further directions. . . . To maintain the dignity of Government mandates and abide safely by decisions of "the Allies, all our troops are warned hereby never again to take independent action...