Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Certain adjustments or additions to H.A.A. Office procedure might smooth the actual processes of ticket application and collection. A rail or employee, or both, would maintain more orderly lines, while some one outside the inviolate reaches of the counter could check application blanks and answer questions before the customer reaches his destination. Prominently displayed signs are needed to remind students which tickets are immediately available as well as to announce the application dates for later contests. Finally, the unutilized outer-office wall might be equipped with a counter, post-office style, to facilitate the filling out of applications, leaving...
Taylor conceded that "in the work of the past [there are] clues for dealing with the present" but argued that "an exclusive concern [with] the classical curriculum has failed in the past and will fail today. ... It may be that education is not a strong enough social tool to maintain the survival of civilization. However, one can look for more in it than Mr. Hutchins' pious hope that if we go down, we will go down talking...
...economic unity, long thought the soundest solution to the knotty Palestine problem, has received definitive backing from the 11-nation UN Special Committee. This sixth, and, it is hoped, last Holy Land report since 1937, now awaits immediate General Assembly action to implement it, meet British withdrawal qualifications, and maintain Palestinian tranquillity...
Confronted with "the admittedly grim prospects of the present," President Conant recognizes that men with "solid faith... founded on religious beliefs" are best able to maintain composure and integrity...
Mather reluctantly admitted he thought that Russia had impeded the recovery of Europe by refusing to cooperate with the western powers in the reconstruction of Germany. But he called it the United States' world obligation to maintain amicable relations...