Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dominicans come to Soldiers Field fresh from a victory over Boston University on Tuesday. In this game, they exhibited nearly flawless work in the field to maintain their high fielding average of their last few encounters...
...political observers maintain that motives political as well as personal have dictated the President's proposed Western excursion. In 1870 a torchlight procession smoked down Pennsylvania Avenue, besought President Grant to have built a permanent Western White House somewhere west of the Mississippi. At the last session of Congress, Representative Dickinson of Iowa resurrected the proposal. Official Washington, including the President, is said to frown on the Western White House idea as needlessly expensive...
...into the air like a pebble from a slingshot. An automatic release hook then drops the shock cord. Once in the air, the pilot of a glider must depend on air currents. Usually he circles around a hill, taking advantage of swirling gusts of wind to gain altitude and maintain flying speed. He must know his air pockets better than any motor-propelled aviator.. Landing is difficult; but not dangerous, because the glider is neither heavy nor swift. Recently a skilled German pilot, Herr Espenlaub, landed his glider after being set loose from an airplane at a height...
...should continue to maintain very high standards for our degrees even if the immediate result is slow growth. In time we shall be able to attract more and more students of the best quality; and this is our ambition...
Correspondent Walter Duranty of the New York Times cabled that Chang Tso-lin explained to Senator Bingham: "I maintain order. I will not allow anti-foreignism in my territory...