Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...These national humiliations and other disheartening matters confront us for solution, and they are not easy to solve. Our great responsibility is to maintain and protect the legacy of our ancestors and to hand it over intact to our descendants...
With first places in four out of the six Freshman dormitory fall sports events, Smith Halls wins the fall championship to maintain the lead it has run up against its competitors in the last nine years...
...point, that is, of size, though never of spirit. Last week, on the heels of President Coolidge's unminced reiteration of his country's intention to look out from now on for its own interests, naval and financial, the Navy Department proclaimed its intention: "To create, maintain and operate a navy second to none, and in conformity with the ratios established by the Washington conference...
...make war efficiency the object of all training and to maintain that efficiency during the entire period of peace...
...week eight hundred products of the traditional college system gathered together at the office of the proctor in answer to a bogus printed notice. Coming at 9.15 in the morning this practical joke must have broken up many a hospitable breakfast party, but the Oxonians even in disillusion maintain the leisurely tradition and cheered and rollicked about for over an hour before dispersing. The attendance of the fire department and the efforts of the proctor and his "bulldogs", without which no British college seems complete, finally succeeded in persuading the crowd that they were not really needed at the office...