Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Common dining-hall such as Memorial Hall used to be, it would be possible. The discontinuance of the Memorial Commons was not due to the college authorities, but to the students, who, for one reason or another, failed to patronize the dining hall in sufficient numbers to maintain...
...officials have regarded with more or less apathy. President Patrick E. Crowley of the New York Central told the Toledo (Ohio) Chamber of Commerce how great those inroads have been. Railroads operate over more than a quarter-million miles of track which they have had to lay down and maintain. Motors run over three million miles of roads supported by taxation. Some of the $360,000,000 of taxes ($1,000,000 a day) which U.S. railroads pay yearly go to maintain roads used by their transportation competitors. "Since 1914 some 20,000,000 motor vehicles have been brought into...
...inconceivable that a government with a reputation to maintain should procrastinate as long as Mr. Baldwin's has, as it was early made clear that the coal strike was a matter for governmental intervention. With the alternative either of forcing owners to pay higher wages, or of lowering the pay of the miners, either to be accomplished with the aid of a gradually decreasing subsidy, the British government seems to be in almost as grave a position as the donkey which starved between two bales of hay. It is probable that there will be no starving in Great Britain this...
...University and Freshman crosscountry teams will go into action against Holy Cross this afternoon in the first meet of the season. Only four experienced barriers will be on the University line-up today to maintain the high standard left by last year's Intercollegiate champions. Coach Jakko Mikkola expects the Holy Cross meet to be the hardest opening assignment scheduled for several seasons...
...criterion is vote-getting. Indced, Dr. Seward's exodus from the preliminaries is a portent of the outcome. His adherents in New York are slipping over toward the wet side of the deek. The Prohibition party, as an institution, has already sunk, below the voting strength legally, necessary to maintain itself a political entity. Already, the Democratic party has hinted at an ardent wet, Governor Ritohic of Maryland, as its 1928 candidate for President. And on their side the Republican drys of New York show signs of fatigue...