Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...full stop, officials ran forward with drawn guns. According to their version, the aviator attempted to take to the air, whereupon they fired, killed the aviator, captured the two other pilots, found no Chinese. In the running gear of the planes were tangled bunches of green oats, proving, officials maintain, that the aviators had landed in a nearby oatfield, unloaded their Oriental contraband. The dead pilot was Arthur I. Daugherty of Los Angeles. Fellow-pilots denied smuggling Chinese, said Pilot Daugherty was shot down without being given a chance for his life. The shooters were held for questioning by their...
Without adequate preparedness, continued Mrs. Brosseau, the U. S. cannot maintain its position in "the big parade of life...
...Markle, oldtime anthracite coal operator, was for 47 years general superintendent and president of the Jeddo-Highland Coal Co. of Jeddo, Pa. Retired, he has established the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation to promote the general good of mankind. The foundation will aid and maintain medical research centres, hospitals, charitable institutions, libraries; help destitute persons; will eventually, said Mr. Markle, rival the scope of the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations...
...voice, which, I find, is a very great asset on the stage. With all these means of expression cut off, the movie actor must rely almost entirely upon his or her face. As a result an actor must have something behind his face in order to maintain a high standard of acting...
...regrets his dusky hue, shapes his life toward proving that his soul, at least, is white or near-white. More radical Negroes, notably the younger school of Negro writers, resent the assumption of white superiority, feel that black culture is different from but on an equal plane with white, maintain that the future of the colored race lies in its proudly being as black as it is painted...