Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three occasions in past years tonight's opponents have clashed. Twice Harvard has humbled the visitors, but in 1909, on the Stadium rink, the Nova Scotians triumphed by 3 to 1. Tonight, while Harvard will be striving to maintain its excellent promise of the early season, the Canadians will be anxious, to register a victory after a 19-year wait for the taste of triumph...
...think it is one of the first tests of citizenship in this republic that one should hold himself free from bondage to authorities in his thinking and in his manners, and it is the opportunity for the enjoyment of such freedom which we would seek to maintain for you at Harvard. The times in which we live have got very far away from those in which wandering scholars exercised the leadership in learning. Few if any communities still exist in which the approach to learning has not been paved with biases of all sorts. The commonest of these biases seem...
...Cuban press began lyrically to hymn him as a "noble and apostolic figure." His work was to hold the U. S. Delegation on an ostentatious par of equality with every other, and to maneuver the most obstreperous Latins into the chairmanships of committees, where they would have to maintain decorum, not disturb it. For example, Mr. Hughes secured the election of fiery Dr. Don José Gustavo Guerrero, Foreign Minister of Salvador, as chairman of the important Public International Law Committee. Dr. Guerrero came to the Conference, a fortnight ago, spouting indiscreet criticisms of the U. S. but completely subsided...
Grim forebodings and impish doubts beset, last week, the mind of George V, King & Emperor. The Church of England prayer book schism had suddenly yawned into a wide abyss. On which side stood the Sovereign? If on both, could he long maintain so wide a straddle? Leaders on both sides, harassed His Majesty, last week, by despatching hundreds of partisan appeals to the royal winter residence, Sandringham House, Norfolk. What to decide...
...Royalty between Scylla and Charybdis, namely that slightly more than half the population of the United Kingdom do not belong to the Church of England. It is this majority which (although its individual leaders are less potent than those in the State Church), is probably strong enough to maintain the Sovereign in suspended straddle, until the abyss beneath him closes through conciliation, or is replaced by some such new order of things as disestablishment of the State Church by Parliament...