Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...owing to the opposition of Yugoslavia, Greece and Rumania, the increase was not permitted until Apr. 10 of this year. Shortly after occurred the Sveti Kral bomb outrage (TIME, Apr. 27 et seq.). Bulgaria petitioned the Council for more troops, received permission to raise another 7,000 and maintain them during the pleasure of the Council...
...women to look upon study not as a memory exercise but as an opportunity to do some independent thinking. As for giving students time off from their studies, that has been done, too. But it will be noted that the proper safeguards are invariably in evidence. Only those who maintain consistently high standards in their classes are allowed to enjoy the new freedom and they are allowed to keep on enjoying it only so long as they show that they do not abuse...
...Erdman was the leading candidate. A Conservative, he was supported by Conservatives. He was also supported by Liberals - for it is the strategy of Liberals not to seek the office of Moderator for one of 'themselves, but to have the office filled by a man who will maintain the unity of the Church and who will abstain from heresy-hunting, except as provided under the Church laws. But there was another candidate last year, Dr. Macartney of Philadelphia. He was not a mild, sweet-tempered, retiring, well-beloved professor. He was a vigorous younger preacher, ready to become...
Many Ways to Maintain Connection...
Lofty tone the Ledger already had, but did not cling to. Sound information the Curtis coffers tried to purchase by establishing a wide foreign service and high-priced U.S. correspondents. Independent politics were a little difficult to maintain, because Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis lunched at the Union League Club and had a reputation for highly respectable conservatism...