Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...funds without enacting M. Doumer's hated "sales tax." M. Doumer parried these as best he could. The Deputies several times attested to the farcical quality of the debate by filing out into the lobbies in such numbers that some of them had to be called back to maintain a quorum...
...appeared in court, although still suffering from the strokes which had been administered to him with knotted rope ends by his Bordeaux assailants. One by one they were called to the stand and stoutly continued to maintain that they had flogged the Abbé "because he has menaced the life of our Sainted Mother Marie," i. e., Marie Mesmin, a former Bordeaux concierge, who has headed the cult of Notre Dame des Pleurs for 21 years, and presided at most of its Sadistic rites...
...secondary schools, which are now being built at the rate of one a day. "There is little in the college life of the last generation which does not find its reflection and imitation in the life of the preparatory school of today. If the college is to maintain its claim to a position superior to the preparatory school, it must intensify its life particularly on the creative side in literature, art, science, politics and religion . . . must become a man and put away childish things...
...still Princeton persists in carefully doling out by the term the number of cuts to upperclassmen who do not maintain a first or second group ranking. At the same time the University nurtures the upperclass plan of independent study and blinds its eye to the contradiction and paradoxical practice...
...There are at present governmentally controlled combinations in nine raw materials?Egyptian long staple cotton, camphor, coffee, iodine, nitrates, potash, mercury, rubber and sisal. At present prices, if we maintain our present rate of consumption, these commodities will cost us about...