Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then, the town clerk was elected. He is paid $300 per year for his job of recording deeds, collecting license fees, and in general keeping all town accounts. He is also given a percentage of the property taxes and the dog license fees for his trouble. But he must maintain the busy office in his own home...
Give an animal four legs, and it is always easy to get the two-legged kind excited about it. This fact was remarkably well demonstrated in the early days of the New Deal, when move furor was created over the A.A.A. slaughter of "the little pigs" to maintain the Chicago price than all the Chinese babies that were bounced around on Japanese bayonets. This backwash of barbaristic animal worship has cropped up vigorously upon the local scene in the hearings of the Miles-Nolan vivisection bill at the State House, where pet owners have been explaining daily why the life...
...postponed the session indefinitely. Archbishop Beran of Prague was refused permission to pray for peace on the Communist-controlled Prague radio. In the streetcars, which used to be favorite political forums, passengers were silent. President Eduard Benes' executive office announced that the President "asks all citizens to maintain calm." Late into the night dense crowds surged through the streets, shouting confused slogans...
...leave, knowing that in five out of the seven House libraries no one will life a finger to stop you. But the libraries are as much to blame for this situation as are the students. Library monitors are not being paid merely to work at a private desk and maintain the silence of the reading room. They should check all books leaving the premises, as does Widener...
...companies argue that Ibn Saud and the lesser sheiks must be placated at all costs if America is to maintain its dominant position in the petroleum industry and they their profits. They add that any Yankeephobia among the nomads would invite Russian expansion into this American preserve...