Search Details

Word: maintains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Government should be the policeman to exercise only that power necessary to maintain an orderly method of living. . . . Unfortunately the Government is not functioning as a policeman, and that is because the Government is in the hands of finance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Like a Dream | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...Their bodies had been shipped to undertakers in the vicinity, to be kept against the next spring buryings. When the last April mule market closed, the Irishmen put their families into their cars, mostly new ones with trailers, and set out for Mrs. Robertson's. They maintain stoutly that they are not a clan, just a large group of countrymen with a common trade. No one knows how the meetings started, but they have been going on for 50 years. Last week, after appropriate ceremonies, the Irishmen deposited their six bodies in the Mt. Calvary cemetery, had a small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Horse Traders | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Asserting that only by a stationary birth rate can a modern nation maintain the present high standard of living, Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish lecturer, warned an audience of 150 people of the dangers of a declining birth rate, yesterday afternoon in New Lecture Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GODKIN LECTURER WARNS LISTENERS OF BIRTH DECLINE | 5/5/1938 | See Source »

...orthodox psychologists maintain . a unique position as being the exponents of a shaky, very materialistic psychology, based on the already discarded concepts of the physicist and the biologist. Their position is now almost untenable, due to the confirmation of Rhine's findings at Columbia, the University of Colorado, N. Y. U., Harvard, Bonn University, Groningen, and Fordham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...this common dental accident. Dentist Kenneth A. Easlick of the University of Michigan last week announced a neat trick: plugging the cavity in the tooth with a paste of paraformaldehyde. Such a chemical desensitizes and mummifies the tooth. Therefore the tooth stays in place, may be filled and helps maintain the shape of the jaw until the permanent tooth ripens and pushes out the mummified milk tooth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: U. S. Teeth | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Previous | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | Next