Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truth concerning contemporary literature of the journalistic breed: the tabloid idea is misrepresenting everything. In their desire for the graphic, the colorful, the papers are forgetting the approximation of the truth which is possible of their attainment. Heckled by moving pictures and novels the colleges are yet able to maintain their own self respect. But it is time for a period of temporary repose when the college world can for the nonce find that the world outside expects other than a circus parade every time that two undergraduates leave their college gates...
...Another matter which may well be considered in this connection is the suggestion that the Student Council should equip and maintain a summer camp of philanthropic nature for poor boys in Boston and the neighborhood. A committee consisting of Alexander Donald '27, chairman, Lawrence Coolidge '27, L. F. Daley '27, Austin Lamont '27, A. J. Cassatt '27 and C. G. T. Lundell '27, has been appointed to investigate the possibilities of such a plan. Upon the report of this committee to the Student Council, it may well decide whether or not to support the plan, and if this is decided...
Yale, forced to maintain a higher stroke throughout than either of its rivals, finished with open water showing between it and the second place Crimson shell...
...this is not humor, it is truth. No matter what that anachronistic old bird of prey, the Ibis, may scream this is truth, real honest to Crime truth. I have no desire to be humorous when I see how little it takes to maintain such a tradition. Take the Silent Man at Washington. He is very humorous. But I would rather be tight than to be president. There is some excuse for being tight...
...miners obtained these hours and this wage, but last year the Coal Owners' Mining Association declared itself unable to maintain the arrangement, and a strike was only averted (TIME, Aug. 10) when the present Baldwin Conservative Government granted a £20,000,000 coal subsidy, which sustained the 1924 wage level artificially until last week, when the subsidy expired. During the week Premier Baldwin persuaded the Owners' Association to offer a national minimum wage 20%* higher than the pre-War scale, if the Miners' Federation would accept an increase in the hours of labor from seven to eight. The miners...