Word: maintains
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Driven from Peiping by the invading army, the universities have clung together and established themselves practically intact in Kunming, 2000 miles south and in the inland of China. There living as they can, students and professors many of whom have walked all the way from Peiping, are attempting to maintain a center of Chinese learning in open air classes...
Last week, to capitalize the public sympathy aroused by the Peace Pope's death, Rector Joseph Corrigan of Washington's Catholic University of America, announced a crusade for "God in Government." U. S. Catholics are to pledge themselves to "defend the republic against atheistic propaganda, to maintain respect for rightly constituted authority and finally to combat fearlessly every invasion of the rights of any citizen or any group of citizens...
...Against Bugs. William Leahy says all the U. S. has to do to keep on good naval footing is to maintain its Navy at its present relative standing in battleships and aircraft carriers, continue its cruiser and destroyer construction program, sharply accelerate its aircraft and submarine program, step up its aircraft procurement to 500 planes per year. Object: to stay just behind Great Britain in heavy categories, come well up with the authoritarians in lighter ships. The job of building ships is therefore highly important to the U. S. Navy, equally important to the U. S. citizens who must...
Compared to the boredom induced by the super-patriotic outbursts of the major feature, "Ambush" is entertaining. Unlike "Wings" it does contain some acting, and although the plot is unoriginal, at least it moves quickly enough to maintain interest. Popeye steals the show...
Critics of the Kerins campaign to clean up Brookline education have shaken their heads gravely over the fact that there is a grammatical mistake in the cartoon: One of the Charley McCarthys is depicted saying "Your Right Mr. Caverly," whereas they maintain it should be "You're Right Mr. Caverly...