Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...direct result of the incompetence, criminal negligence and almost treasonable administration of the national defense by the Navy and War Departments. In their attempts to keep down the development of aviation to an independent department, separate from the Army and Navy and handled by aeronautical experts, and to maintain the existing systems, they have gone to the utmost lengths to carry their points...
...cases in which the motives for extending aid to an athlete are not clear to the Committee of the Three Chairmen, that committee shall take into account failure on the part of the athlete to maintain a creditable record in his academic course in character, scholarship, and willingness to meet his obligations, as evidence that a continuance of financial aid to the athlete on grounds of character, scholarship, and conduct seems unwise, and that therefore the committee may have to declare him ineligible...
Yale rode to a decisive victory over the University polo team at Dedham on Saturday, by a score of 9 to 6. By piling up four goals in the first chukker, two of them made in the first two minutes of play, the Bulldog was able to maintain a substantial lead through the hard-fought periods that followed...
...they have learned what it is to have a well drilled organization opposite them. When they go onto the field against Dartmouth, they will know that the college is back of them to the man; they will know that they have a job to do and a confidence to maintain. They will go on to fight to the end and where there is the hardest fighting the victory will follow...
...Goethe's emotional nature craved the sympathy and love of woman, he needed the sympathy of love. Some of his greatest works were inspired by woman, though it is an absurd misconception of Goethe's nature and genius to maintain, as has been done, that he fell in love with the purpose of getting material and inspiration for his poetry...