Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Because of their constant desire for undeserved raises in salary in order to maintain the false standards of life they learned at college when they lived on their father's money or bluffed their way, or went into debt...
...still maintain many characteristics of the small village in Hanover, and among these I should reckon the telegraph hours on Sunday...
...Drys (Methodists, Congregationalists and Presbyterians) sought to elect representatives to the Provincial Legislature who would maintain the ten-year-old 0. T. A (Ontario Temperance Act) under which only "native wines and light beers" can be sold...
British rubber magnates want the price of rubber never to fall below 42? a pound, which represents a fair profit for the average grower of plantation rubber. To maintain that price the Stevenson Plan became effective in 1919. When rubber falls below 42? growers must curtail production; when it mounts above, they may produce to capacity. The Stevenson Plan prevents loss to growers, but does not restrict their profits. And their profits may mean loss to rubber consumers, who are thus forestalled...
Such a hall, capably managed, if need be by a non-University organization, providing the important accessories to table d'hote fare enumerated above, offerings variety in its connected cafeteria, and alert to maintain a high standard both in the cooking and original quality of its food, is the sole satisfactory way for Harvard to wipe out its present dietetic defeat...