Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face of these hazards, Durant manages to maintain a quiet reserve that is the mark of the successful down-east trader. Across the desk he is deliberate and exceedingly mild in mien and expression. This softness of speech must not be taken for timidity, as a generation of Crimson candidates will testify. But Durant is no legendary tyro out of the Copey mold. Rather he is a businessman-engineer working at the earth-bound business of maintaining Harvard's wealth of real facilities...
...understandable temptation for the University to maintain that such a project would entail too much red tape, but there would be no extra food expense, and to the men of those classes broken up after three or four years leave of absence, such a project would be well worth the small amount of extra printing or bookkeeping involved. Ninety cents out of the chit book seems an unnecessary alternative to an even more costly meal at the Square...
...remember," McCoy tells anybody who drops in to his office, "that our first problem is to field a team which will hold its own with colleges who managed to maintain pretty high football standards during...
...dull, uninteresting and inadequate. It is true that it becomes sickening to live for years on 7 oz. of fat (including all butter, margarine & lard) and less than 1 Ib. of meat a week. ... It is even true that over a period of years our diet is inadequate to maintain proper fitness and resistance to disease. Add to this fuel rationing, sky-high prices and acute housing shortage, and you will appreciate that for a victorious (sic) nation our position is not pleasant...
...Canada may also help fuel the U.S. inflation she fears. Her biggest exports are lumber, wood products and paper-and the U.S. buys most of them. If Canadian lumber and papermen boost prices in U.S. dollars in order to maintain their profit margins, then U.S. manufacturers may have to boost prices in their turn, and there will be more outside inflation pressuring Canada...