Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back, he cannot be cut off by 2,500 marines or 5,000; and he can shuttle back and forth . . . across Nicaragua, enjoying a fairly adequate food supply, tapping rich agricultural sectors, and passing rapidly from point to point; whereas the American troops, to cover this same region, and maintain intact their line of communications with Managua and Leon, must swing over an arc half again as long...
...Countee Cullen, the Negro poet. Cullen who received an A.M. degree at Harvard two years ago, will use the fellowship to go to Paris to complete a series of narrative poems and the libretto for an opera. He is looked upon as one of the best modern poets to maintain the classical tradition. He is a contributor to Harper's and the Herald-Tribune "Books...
...upon the hypothesis that every man who takes his studies seriously and spends the requisite amount of time on them should be capable of attaining at least a high C average. If this statement sounds too startling in view of the number of men on probation and those who maintain a precarious low C level, it is only necessary to point to the inroads of athletics, outside activities, society, and perhaps an apathetic attitude which in some cases keeps the most capable men from spending even two hours a day on their studies. It would be difficult to maintain that...
...tropic climes, on opposite sides of the twirling globe, shrewd men watched anxiously, last week, the struggle of Great Britain to maintain her world monopolistic grip on rubber...
When he was asked whether he thought Mussolini's successor would be able to maintain the power his predecessor had amassed, Professor Langer said it was very doubtful. "But it is usually the outside power which forces the issue, and not the internal. Consider France thus as the external force in the case of Alsace-Lorraine...