Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last quarter century, the Filipino people are by no means equipped, either in wealth or experience, to undertake the heavy burden which would be imposed upon them with political independence. Their position in the world is such that without American protection there would be the unrestricted temptation to maintain an extensive and costly diplomatic service and an ineffective but costly military and naval service...
...That the House, while earnestly desiring further limitation of armaments, so far as consistent with the safety and integrity of the Empire, affirms the principle laid down by the late Government, and accepted by the imperial conference, that Great Britain must maintain a home defence air force of sufficient strength to give adequate protection against air attacks by the strongest air force within striking distance of her shores." (see Page...
...Nolen's will, he stipulated that the school should be offered for sale to the present instructors. The value that he placed upon it was outside of all proportions we were willing topay, for we maintain that the only assets in the school are books and furniture, and that the good-will the legatec seeks to capitalize is something we instructors have shared with Mr. Nolen in founding. "We have offered a sum we consider commensurate with the value of the tangible assets, but it has been rejected...
Replying to an inquiry on education is Russia today Miss Strong said "The education budget is the only one which is increasing each year. The army is 100 per cent literate, and the Trade Unions maintain 1500 teaching centers where workers learn to read and write. The Universities are filled with young men who are taking technical courses, many institutions having discontinued entirely classical study...
...order to fulfill this program you must accept courageously the provisional burdens which will permit us to defeat the attack against us and maintain the confidence our laborious country deserves. I repeat that these burdens are temporary...