Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into Colombo, Hongkong, Shanghai, the ship nosed her way. Port officials went aboard, came off marveling. By now only a small group of men were trying to maintain discipline. One worried boy moaned...
...people were in the windswept stadium (capacity 116,308) as the President arrived. Many had waited three or four hours; the temperature was 46°. The crowd gave Eisenhower its biggest cheer of the day, listened attentively to his speech ("We must, until perpetual peace is assured, maintain and constantly improve the perishable machines of our security...
...well off economically. . . . [But] they had no men. . . . Every day, married women feared for the lives of their husbands and the unmarried women worried and moped at not being able to obtain the love of a man. Some girls 18 and 19 years of age even . . . saved money to maintain themselves as old maids...
John quotes a passage from Viollet-le-Duc which well describes Frank Lloyd Wright's ambition, and to a considerable extent, his achievement. Wrote Viollet-le-Duc: "The leaf of a shrub, a flower, an insect-all have style; because they grow, are developed, and maintain their existence according to laws essentially logical. We can subtract nothing from a flower, for each part of its organism expresses a function. . . . Proceed as nature does in her works, and you will be able to invest with style all that your brain conceives...
Quest for Food. The colony builds long tunnels to sources of food. If a tunnel is broken, an order of unknown origin brings workers with repair materials. In dry districts the colony sinks deep wells to maintain the humidity it requires. Many termites' intestines swarm with microscopic organisms which help them digest the wood which is their standard food. Without these symbiotic helpers, these termites...