Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University students must provide an answer to the Cassandras, the President asserted, by supplying intellectual and moral courage. "One can hardly maintain that we are likely to solve our problems if we approach them in a spirit of abject fear...
...worthwhile: by discouraging bookmakers from plying their trade at the track, the Pinkerton men increase the take at the pari-mutuel windows (average day's total: $1,800,000). And by hunting down touts-who start most of the rumors about fixed races-the Pinkerton men help maintain public confidence in the New York tracks...
...managerial system at Harvard is recognized throughout the east as being the best in coordinating the functions necessary for the operation of a team. We hope that Harvard will be able to maintain this reputation--and that there will be a large turnout for the Freshman Managerial competition to help...
Some western nations may find their "numbers too small to ... compete economically and militarily with neighbors who are growing at a more rapid rate . . . too small to maintain their national culture in a world which under the influence of science is becoming one world...
...plane had shown on Middle Scope, whose operator picked up: "Decrease rate of descent to 400 and maintain it constant . . . Lower your landing gear ..." Then Final Scope took over: "Change course to three four eight degrees. You're high on the glide path . . . Level off. Steady . . . You're on the glide path...