Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Capital? The Economist wants to know how a state that takes 40% of all income is going to find enough savings to maintain its capital. "The harassed Chancellors of the Exchequer of the future will be hard enough put to it to balance their [current] books, without putting on still more taxes to provide a fund of public savings...
Harvard apparently loves the National Student Association. At any rate, it gives NSA over $1000 a year to maintain rapport with student organizations all over the nation and to whip up schemes like the DP program and the purchase card plan. Whether it likes the idea or not--and a segment of the paying population inevitably doesn't--Harvard is securely wedded...
While at College, Davis was able to maintain a Group I standing despite the arthritis which frequently made him allow as long as 45 minutes to reach a class, Edmund J. Blake '51, a member of the committee, said last night. Davis' classes were specially chosen to give him time between them...
...true democracy," Eliot asserts stoutly, "can maintain itself unless it contains these different levels . . . Complete equality means universal irresponsibility . . . oppressive for the conscientious and licentious for the rest." Mass education looks fine on paper, but in practice it only means "half-education," and encourages the half-baked notion "that superiority is always superiority of intellect." In Eliot's Victorian view of things, the true superiority is the superiority of any class passing on its culture for generation after generation...
...Houses are not planning to deconvert next year, and will maintain their current level of one extra man for every two. Even counting on the enrollment drop, they can take less than half of the freshmen class...