Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That every effort be made to maintain the present restrictions on immigration especially as to keeping out the Japanese...
...four appellants question the right of the War Department to permit Chicago to withdraw water from Lake Michigan for sanitary purposes. Already the War Department has taken steps to reduce the amount of water withdrawn by the Chicago Sanitary District (TIME, July 20), but if the four states maintain their contention, the restriction will be even more rigid...
...being exactly notorious to being notoriously exact. Perhaps the need of American politics is a manual of malfeasance, of the psychology of political pragmatism, perhaps not. For, although the Machiavellian side of political theory will always remain the abode of the cynic in politics and, therefore, continue always to maintain some importance one cannot consider this particular proponent too seriously. The ironies of Shaw may be "gargoyles on a great cathedral"; the ironies of Meneken are as yet but poor figures on a trifling edifice...
...parenthetical elucidation, the traits of a deliberate genius for writing of the perplexing muddle known as Life to Average People. Still others, a critical few, whose censure affects the sales of Author Hutchinson's books about as much as it would discourage gum-chewing among U. S. salesladies, maintain that this author is a harmless dolt with a flair for illiterate sob-mongering...
...hold no brief for the food at Memorial still less for the smells thereof, but I maintain that to eat regularly and leisurely at a fixed time in dignified surroundings, with chosen companions, is a civilized and civilizing influence. Today all that is changed. A small body of men still eat at their clubs; Randall has not been opened since the War; Memorial Hall was finally closed this year because it was found impossible to coerce or cajole enough students into going there to make the place pay. The great mass of our undergraduates shovel down their food at quick...