Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wracking examinations and a considerable strictness in correcting and grading appealed more to gambling instincts than to anything else. There was at times a pleasant exhilaration about it, but it readily gave place to discouragement, even for a person who considered himself at least passably prepared. I will gladly maintain that the sweets of the course still outweigh the bitters, but that conclusion is coloured by the fact that I received a passing grade, which was not the fortune of everyone in the course...
...twenty minutes. His estimate of my judgment seems to be desperately low, but let that pass. My real purpose was to find out what the members of the course would say about the July. Monarchy if they had only fifteen minutes to say it. I believe and I still maintain that it is quite possible to give a brief characterization of the regime of Louis Philippe in the time allotted, provided the student knows enough about it to be able to distinguish what is important from what is unimportant. The misapprehension of your contributor seems to me like evidence that...
...Cason did not say and I have never said as TIME published "that a football player has no time or thought to give to anything but football unless he is willing to subject himself to abnormal strain." It is quite different to maintain that "today in our Universities a varsity athlete to be successful must devote more time to athletics than to any other phase of his college life." This I believe to be very unwise unless he intends to become a coach, or enter professionally into the athletic field. My principal objection to varsity athletics is that they...
...produces 30% of the U. S. output. Last summer the California legislature passed the Lyon Act, a measure ostensibly designed to prevent wastage of natural gas but really meant to limit oil production.* Small producers have questioned the legality of the Lyon Act, but big oilmen maintain that the courts will uphold the validity of the measure and that the law will reduce California's present production of 870,000 barrels a day by at least 200,000 barrels. Stabilization of oil production for 1930 depends largely upon the outcome of the Lyon...
...stipulates that natural gas shall be conserved, lest all the natural gas be exhausted and gushers therefore cease to gush. Oil operators have fqond that recycling the gas into the ground is the only practical form of natural gas conservation. Small operators, lacking the capital to construct recycling works, maintain that the measure is discriminatory, invidious...