Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small boy going to the state university at Austin, where I lived, working at night in order that I might maintain myself and pay my way through that institution. I was walking down the street of Austin one day in the hot sun going to town and Mr. House drove by me in his one-horse buggy. He drove a one-horse buggy then; he drove it himself. No pretension; meek as he could be. And he saw a poor boy walking along in the hot sun. He knew nothing of me; he did not know my name...
...have the Republican machine with him, at least in the eastern part of the state. In the western part the Mellons may swing the organization for Pepper. But Vare hopes to take compensation out of Pinchot's vote. He declared: "I shall be opposed by two candidates who would maintain the extreme rigor of the Volstead law. Enforcement of this law has failed, and it has failed because, in my opinion, the law is not enforceable in its present form...
...Half Ways". The audience is slow at understanding, but they are rather slow in helping them to understand. Mr. Mowbray as the cynic who tries to "Scotch the snake" of life has excellent moments, due perhaps to his possessing the nicest lines of the play. Yet he fails to maintain the consistency of Prior's character by ranting at times as no Priors ever rant--even when convinced that they are soundly, irrevocably dead...
...almost five months a cabinet crisis has existed at The Hague, where such occurrences are taken with phlegmatic calm. The last Cabinet, headed by Premier Colyn, quietly resigned after the Second Chamber (House) had attached a rider to the budget refusing funds to maintain the legation representing the Netherlands at the Vatican (TIME, Nov. 23). Last week, after innumerable steady-going attempts to form a Cabinet had failed, meagre despatches reported that former Finance Minister de Geer has succeeded in getting together a Ministry in which Dr. H. A. Kapnebeek will continue as Foreign Minister...
Although ease of transition from elementary to grammar school is important, it is no less necessary to maintain intact the educational connection with the college. Unless one is to deny many a boy of moderate circumstances adequate training for university work, the public school must accept the burden of that preparation. Already a gap exists between the college requirements, as enforced through the entrance examinations, and the ordinary high school training. Making the gulf wider by increasing the emphasis on practical rather than cultural subjects in the secondary schools is a violation of that democratic principle which strives to give...