Word: maintains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Automatic increases" are by no means always justified. In general, we prefer to have the University economize, if necessary, in the salaries of the highest paid ranks in order to enhance the security and provide a better living wage for its younger men, and to maintain in the higher ranks the sense of competition which is so keen in the lower...
...Palestine would come into being around 1942-1944. Its government would have to give Britain the guarantee that minority rights for the Jews would be respected, that the places holy to three religions in the country would be protected and that Britain would get the right to maintain such military, naval, air bases and oil reserves as she pleased...
...August to find out exactly how much a man must eat in order to stay alive. Last week the Lancet printed the nutritionists' report. The report suggested a basic minimum diet for war-torn countries which would tickle no palates and fill no stomachs but would maintain life for an indefinite period of time, and prevent such serious deficiency diseases as scurvy, pellagra, anemia, rickets...
...questions of what to do with the arms it is now buying, how to scotch the dictators and maintain peace at the same time, the U. S. was divided last week into two camps about as follows: 1) those who believe that the dictators cannot live forever and that anyhow Europe had best be left to take care of itself-they want a big stick just in case, and 2) those who want to stand up on top of the barricade, shake the stick in such an unequivocal manner that the dictators will mend their ways...
...have served notice that Don Manuel cannot function as President-i.e., cannot sign decrees-on French soil. Moreover, French and British ambassadors to Spain are accredited to the President of the Republic rather than to the Republic itself. With the President in France, Britain and France could easily maintain that Loyalist Spain had ceased to exist...