Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President of Tokyo Electric Light is the very old fashioned, although comparatively young Shohachi Wakao, 45. His natal family was the Hirose. But by an intelligent Japanese custom whereby powerful families maintain succession of their primacies, he was adopted (1896) into the great Wakao family of bankers, and later reverently married Kiyono, the daughter of Tamizo Wakao. Like Chairman Baron Seinosuke Goh, President Shohachi Wakao has legal training, is a member of the Japanese house of peers, and holds several corporate directorships...
...there will be the 13-inch Boyden telescope, especially suited for planetary studies and for the newer types of spectrophotometry, inaugurated in recent years at the Harvard Observatory; an eight-inch photographic lens for work on standard magnitudes and variable stars; and a three-inch "policeman" which will steadily maintain the Harvard patrol on all of the southern sky. In addition there are two or three lenses that will be in occasional use for special investigations...
...rather write a book than write sermons," was Dr. Fiske's reply to queries of the deacous and elders. But, though he went on to say that the book was based on the experiences of a young, unsophisticated minister, and that his purpose was only to maintain interest in his meetings, the conservative board voted angrily for good old gospel sermons, and read its ultimatum to him. There was no escape. Another baton is dropped before it can even be handed on; the old-time religion scores a coup the voices of gold, once ringing melodiously on Sunday evenings...
...Venizelos' political renaissance, he said: "The royalist press continues to declare that King George II [now a Rumanian resident] will come back. That is why I have come back. . . . The Liberal Party must not be allowed to disintegrate. . . . We must not relax our vigilant purpose to maintain the Republic...
...fact it is. Hemingway and his imitators--he is probably the most imitated author now living--have succeeded in glorifying the seamy side of life in such a manner that it appears far more enticing than any other aspect. The present Younger Generation is working much harder to maintain its reputation than that Younger Generation which immediately followed the war. The task then was simpler: it was a matter of romance and was spontaneous. Now there are standards of depravity which must be lived down if one is to claim membership among the lost generation. Hemingway, with satire as much...