Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile Japan continued to maintain several potent armed forces in China, to protect her nationals in the provinces of Shantung, and Manchuria and in Peking (Chihli Province) (TIME, April 30). Therefore, in all probability the men who knew most authoritatively last week, which way the tide of Chinese Civil War will turn were the officers comprising the Japanese Imperial General Staff...
Boots Cash Chemists Shops, founded by Sir Jesse Boot, Baronet, 31 years ago maintain the flavors of forgotten apothecaries. Although their salespersons sell a variety of trinkets, knicknacks, whatnots, folderols, and hygienic equipment dexterously, they can also rub a powder down with mortar and pestle, fill a capsule, roll a pill, brew an effusion. Nineteen out of twenty Boots employees have never worked elsewhere. Employees of U. S. chain drug stores constantly shift their jobs...
...replace the veteran Bob Lampoon in the box for the humorists, and that V. O. Jones '28, versatile CRIMSON tosser, would be unable to play are believed to have caused the rash action of the Lampoon rooters. Word got around yesterday, however, that the CRIMSON is firmly resolved to maintain the integrity of its football traditions and that in consequence the score would stand s the sinking sun is being sunk over Soldiers Field this afternoon. CRIMSON 23, Lampoon 2. The confusion that this news produced in financial districts late yesterday afternoon in indescribable...
...Egyptian Parliament, greatly daring, had brought the ultimatum upon itself by approving the so-called Public Assemblies Bill. Under that innocuous title is cloaked a measure which would severely curtail the police power to maintain order during public meetings, which, in Egypt, turn very easily into anti-British race riots. Therefore the London ultimatum to Cairo, last week, informed Egyptian Prime Minister Nahass Pasha that he must "immediately . . . prevent the Public Assemblies Bill from becoming law," or else expect "His Britannic Majesty's Government to consider themselves free to take such action as the situation may seem to them...
...interests himself at all in such matters can form an opinion only on grounds which are stoutly denied by the other side. Politicians and members of the enlightened upper crust of Filipino society make large claims of their ability to manage their own affairs, while the Administration forces maintain that the bulk of the people are not sufficiently advanced for such a move. Imperialism, no matter how a country begins upon it is a course that cannot be abandoned without embarrassment, and the best of motives will often be misconstrued...