Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Western Europeans nursed no great hope that U.N. would be able to maintain peace. What else was there? One other idea that rank-&-file Europeans turned over in their minds now was Western European Union. So far, to the average man, the words were little more than a label; fewer people had heard the phrase than had heard, for example, of U.N. or the Marshall Plan. But Western Europe liked the sound of Western Union...
...product was used in the new plant only where tests proved it to have definite advantages over other materials. In the case of aluminum v. steel, one disadvantage is higher cost. But Alcoa claims that, because it is easier to erect (it is much lighter) and cheaper to maintain (it is much more resistant to rust), it is worth the difference...
...word speech, as turbid as the fine print in a lease, Delegate Austin announced that the U.S. had changed its mind on Palestine. The U.S. no longer supported partition. Instead, Austin declared, "My government believes that a temporary trusteeship for Palestine should be established . . .to maintain the peace [until] Jews and Arabs . . . reach an agreement regarding the future government of that country...
...accept the increased responsibility toward students that the boost will involve. To begin with, the administration must exert every effort to keep the rise as small as possible. It must then set up competent machinery to deal fairly and generously with hardship cases caused by this rise. It must maintain the standards of its Student Employment Office at the very highest level. And finally, it must administer its scholarship funds, some of which have grown substantially during the war and the postwar reign of the GI, so that the College will continue to educate large numbers of students from every...
...short time the fleeting ideal of public service might be enough to carry on the tradition, but in the long run a club or dramatic group or publication can maintain its standard only by continually striving to please the public to which it must sell memberships or tickets or subscriptions...