Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...maintain that naval needs are relative. So far in this conference, aside from what we consider minor details, Great Britain has not offered to give up one single thing...
...urge the use of scientific discoveries which tend to the upward development of the race. If, for instance, in the light of modern knowledge, the upward development of humanity seems to point to a greater emphasis upon family life, then the Church should urge the latter to be maintained at all hazards. But if upward development seems to lie in any other direction, then to maintain the solidity of the family against it, is not being an intelligent guide. I am not saying which way science seems to point, I am merely raising the question to show that whatever...
...Last year the Rockefeller Foundation set out to maintain scientific research in public health affairs; to support medical education; to train health officers, laboratory workers, engineers and nurses: to organize health ices; to secure appropriate legislation; to provide money where necessary; and to stir up public opinion to support public health. Accomplishments. During 1926 the Foundation spent $9,741,474, and got these definite results...
...state of such excitement that the official Soviet newspaper Isvestia soon accused Chancellor of the British Exchequer Winston S. Churchill of directing a secret band of assassins pledged to exterminate Soviet officials. Isvestia added, explanatorily: "London is a nest of murderers." Soviet War Minister Clemence Voroshilov declared: "The British maintain a band of murderers and brigands in our country." What banal and sordid crime provoked these flamboyant charges...
...boast of most any scholar that he does not care for fame and studiously avoids publicity. It is a good boast. It reconciles the scholar to the actual circumstances of his position and enables him to construct and to maintain a standard of values which is of his own making. To feel his long studies hidden in his own breast, his thoughts at times revolving tumultuously there as though they were animated by the seed of truth and must therefore out, yet again subsiding in acknowledged error, and at the same time to see harvests of wealth and reputation...