Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cambridge School Committee and oppose progress in the city government. The Municipal elections degenerated into a muddled class war that obviated any recognition of the merits of Plan E and glossed over the flaws in an antiquated school system. That the city's 55,000 voters chose to maintain four enemies of Plan E on the City Council and return a veto-force of three to the School Committee must stand as a tribute to the sagacity of Cambridge politicians...
Among the requisites which they listed for "a strong world governing body" was an international "police force" which could maintain order in a world where national armies would be reduced to levels sufficient only to maintain domestic order and not strong enough to represent an international threat...
...only a silent bit of fluff, an extremely light touch was needed lest the downy plot be brushed away. The touch provided fills the bill, for the writers stress the humor, underscore the sentiment, yet never lose the bird in the shuffle. By keeping their dramatic proportions constant, they maintain the credibility of the Pipit throughout--in fact, so important does he become that he assumes a par with the RAF: winged creatures all. Bird lovers everywhere, farmers or ornithologists, forget the War and join the Pipit's Cause; and the blood, sweat and tears shed to protect the specimen...
...former will be a last resort. Nearly every other major eastern college has hiked its tuition already, but Harvard's huge endowment has enabled it to maintain. its twenty-year-old rates. The Business and Medical Schools, however, have jumped their tuition, and in an effort to stave off similar rises in the College and other Schools, President Conant appealed to the Alumni last June for an endowment increase in the neighborhood of $50 million. On the result of his appeal depend future tuition rates...
...titled "A discussion of the contemporary dilemma of American liberalism," Professor Lynd's speech is expected to maintain that this country's middle class is unable to take the lead in meeting the need for over-all democratic planning in American society...