Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school does not like this arrangement because it makes the task of placing its students in colleges difficult. In addition, public schools find themselves at a disadvantage in competition with private schools, which usually maintain cagey strategists on their staff occupied primarily with getting the boys into college. The admissions boards see the problem from the other side. Harvard, to take an example, has been faced with three to four satisfactory applicants for each one it could accept during the last few years. It must choose between them on some basis, and finds the choice system as good...
Zionists here will furnish the settlement with books and scientific reports as well us maintain an exchange of ideas through the mails. The Society is at work filling Miss Shalteal's request for 15 scientific texts including works on agricultural science...
This vote indicates a hasty scampering to the right and a desperate attempt to maintain the type of government deemed necessary for U. S. aid. French politicians have never agreed on anything for very long, and whether they can too the United States' line long enough to secure France for the Marshall plan is the question of the hour...
...maintain its distribution of TIME overseas, TLI has to deal with 85 different political entities, each with its own currency and currency problems. So far, TLI has had to establish 24 basic subscription prices in local currencies and 60 different newsstand rates. In several countries yearly subscription prices must equal or exceed the total of 52 newsstand copies. In Norway, all subscriptions must be entered through agents; in Finland, through the post office. In New Zealand, no new subscriptions at all may be solicited. In China, because of currency fluctuations, newsstand prices are subject to change weekly...
When he was an undergraduate, Kennedy helped to organize the original Gold Coast Band, which was a local fixture until the war. He played trumpet and cornet, and until about a year ago managed to maintain his command of both instruments. During the war he was "in condition" enough to work with an outfit that played in Boston at USO dances and other social functions...