Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...representative of my country, whose supreme duty is to maintain and, if possible, to draw still closer the bond of friendship so happily existing between our peoples, I honestly believe such effects as I have described to be "grave consequences." In these words, which I did quite ingenuously, I had no thought of being in any way disagreeable or discourteous and still less of conveying "a veiled threat...
...phonograph trade. First of all, retail dealers are equipping Victrolas as radio receivers and selling them. Secondly, the popularity of many songs and even classical music broadcast by radio has led to the purchase of the same selections in the form of permanent phonograph records. Lastly, many home audiences maintain a phonograph to intersperse favorite selections with the sometimes unattractive features of radio broadcasting programs...
...impossible, however, to maintain such equanimity in face of the attack on the Military Science Department. As a matter of fact, the pacifists should be thankful for the presence of the Unit, for there will be in any class a group of young men of robust instincts and patriotic tendencies who might feel inclined to pacify the pacifists to the damage of the latter if there were not a mild-mannered Col. Browning on the job as a guide toward tolerance. And besides, what business is it of the pacifists if three hundred odd students desire to acquire the gentlemanly...
...Sigma Kappa, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Sigma Phi, Theta Xi. As a result they are all housed together in a new Allerton fraternity clubhouse at No. 22 E. 38th St., Manhattan. The Cornell Club took two floors and a private entrance. "Thus do we maintain the dear, gay memories of college 'days," said the graduate fraternity...
Professor Cannon pointed out that warm-blooded animals, such as birds and mammals, have hair and feathers which help to maintain a fairly fixed bodily heat. Even this changes, however; in the space of twenty-four hours, a man's temperature can rise or fall 20 degrees. "And this fact," said Professor Cannon, is the greatest of all reasons against Professor Davis' new industrial day. If we got up at 3 o'clock in the morning, the day's industry would start off with a very bad four hours...