Word: maintains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italians there was in the Spanish situation an enormous opportunity to obtain revenge for the British attitude on their Ethiopian conquest. No longer will it be possible for the Crown to maintain Gibraltar in the security they have enjoyed in years past...
Many U. S. music schools (e.g., Curtis, Juilliard, Eastman) maintain their own student orchestras. Yet, when new graduates of these schools try to get jobs with first-rate orchestras, they are generally turned away for lack of experience. In 1920, a red-headed teacher of music theory named Franklin Robinson finally realized that, because of this small but important difference between a music-school graduate and a full-fledged professional, U. S. symphony orchestras were packed with Europeans. Patriotic Teacher Robinson hastened to the late Mrs. E. H. Harriman, asked her to back him in the organization of a symphony...
With offices in London, Paris and Brussels, Dr. Tenenbaum's aids maintain eternal vigilance over trade relations with Germany to spot violations of the boycott. If the boycott council ferrets out evidence of such a violation, the firm involved is asked for an explanation. If none is forthcoming, the council pickets its offices, publishes its name and offense, does its best to prevent customers from trading there until the firm agrees to arbitrate...
Professor Dawes and his associates attempt to maintain close contact with their students; this is accomplished to a degree which is impossible in large engineering schools where a more standardized training is offered. That these policies are effective is evidenced by the fact that even during the lean years of the depression the graduates of the department of Electrical Engineering had no difficulty in finding satisfactory positions after graduation...
...field of water purification, the Department of Sanitary Engineering has intensively studied the hydraulics of sand filteration and means of cleaning such sand filters to maintain their efficiency. The osmoscope has also been used in studying the odors and tastes in drinking water, and further studies have been made in the control of microscopic organisms...