Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late Sleeping Car Tycoon Baron Dalziel of Wooler (TIME, April 30), has now said: "I have long ago given up trying to get English people to pronounce 'Dalziel' correctly. . . . The late Lord Dalziel also accustomed himself to let the wrong pronunciation pass uncorrected. . . . He ceased to maintain the tradition that 'Dalziel' should be pronounced...
...into the sustaining fund of the theatre. This year the Detroit Civic Theatre will present for children several free performances of plays selected by school teachers; also an outdoor performance of some as yet unnamed classical play with the assistance of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. In addition it will maintain its own school of dramatic...
...occasion [is now] judged proper for asserting, as a principle, in which the right and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power...
...That the Hoover declarations "we must and shall maintain our naval defense" and "we must not only be just; we must be respected," were swaggering, hypocritical, tragic...
They were loyal to Kaiser Wilhelm, to the last, and afterward. But today it is better to be a Republican, and to maintain at the Foreign Office the old standards of caviar, sturgeon, cold venison, pheasant and champagne...