Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reign of Torture. M. Barbusse characteristically charges nothing less than that the governments of Roumania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Jugoslavia "maintain their supremacy through methods which make the Spanish Inquisition appear sweet and humane by contrast...
...handsome son of U. S.-born and trained Harry Gordon Selfridge and persistently a U. S. citizen, last week on arrival in Manhattan for a brief business inspection, enunciated a new principle of selling in his father's enormous London emporium: Salespersons will address customers by name; will maintain good will...
...eyes rest in the head. . . in the normal positions in which nature placed them. . . . The readers maintain an upright and healthful position. . . . This system. . . offers an immediate solution of the serious problems. . . a contribution to progress...
...development already conceived, and in some cases practiced by the faculty and student body of Harvard! Indeed even the most casual reading of this article forces comparison with the Report of the Student Council's Committee on Education. For in many respects that report suggests a similar attempt to maintain the traditional facilities for the acquisition of culture and the development of intelligence while yet admitting the existence of progressive and often anti-cultural tendencies on the part of the university world to include itself within the larger world of modern civilization...
WHEN the artist must eat, and at the very best night clubs, art flies out the window. F. Scott Fitzgerald has decided to live well and write too. This is forgiveable and understandable in a young man of means. But when his writings maintain him in the style to which he is unaccustomed it take a good deal of writing for the Red Book to keep the purse at the proper bulge...