Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to the Council committee. President Conant decided that Geography should be eliminated as a field of concentration because of the additional cost, in building maintenance as well as faculty, that would have been necessary "to maintain the field at the level considered adequate...
...critics maintain that he belongs to the 19th Century; that he is shortsighted in world affairs; that he is stubborn, cold, impatient of opposition; that he is tactless ("It is dishonest to be tactful," he says); that he lacks the kind of wisdom which comes from human understanding; that basically he distrusts the judgment of the people...
Like many another big estate owner, the Roosevelts have found their holdings too expensive to staff and maintain as residences alone. They have to be made to pay their own way. Squire Elliott started things last Christmas by resuming the sale of Christmas trees. (There are 450,000 trees on the estate, many planted by F.D.R...
...wanted and had to maintain Krupp, in spite of all opposition, as an armament plant for the future, even if in camouflaged form." In these words, in 1941, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach told how his giant munitions trust had helped arm the Nazis. For this and other brags and deeds, the U.S. put Krupp high up on its war criminals list...
Hollywood has spent years seeking the bubble reputation for glamor. Now it has decided to kill the pretty illusions that have cost so many millions to maintain. The trouble is, the public began to suspect that Hollywood glamor was synonymous with loose living. Some moviemen believe that this suspicion, deepened by the congressional Red hunt last fall, is a factor in the current box-office slump...