Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Russell Janney, producer of "Sancho Panza," has endeavored to maintain the spirit of Cervantes' "Don Quixote", so that those who are familiar with the famous Don and his encounter with the windmills may not be disappointed in the transferring of the atmosphere from the book to the stage. Even Sancho Panza's famous donkey, "Dapple", has not been overlooked. In fact, he shares honors with Mr. Skinner...
...equal "footing" with the European continental Powers. On the civil side, he said that the Government had decided to grant a subsidy totaling £1,000,000 extending over a period of ten years to the three leading commercial air companies (recently amalgamated) to enable them to maintain their air transportation services...
...Blount objects to the ever-increasing size of Harvard classes on the very reasonable grounds that the physical capacity of the College is strained to the utmost. There can be few, who have given the subject any thought, who will not agree with him. If Harvard is to maintain its standards, if a Harvard education is to stand for what it has always stood for in the past, the physical limit of expansion has, for the moment at least, been reached. The existing physical plant is no longer adequate even for the present classes. The existing faculty can cope with...
...should be, for it is nothing else but that far-famed individualism of which Harvard is so justly proud. No Harvard man would accept with equanimity the dull uniformity characteristic of some educational institutions. But individualism has been carried too far and has become not the right to maintain one's own ideas and customs among many but the habit of remaining oblivious to most other points of view and contemptuous of those that are known. The lump has become too great for the leaven...
...general, the offense of both teams was rugged. Neither was able to maintain a sustained attack. The defense, however, was much better than it has been in the earlier scrimmages. Both line-ups showed guards of considerable defensive ability, but they failed to measure up to the standard of offensive play which a four-man attack requires of them...