Word: maintains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trust that the Editor will continue to maintain the latest high standard in his fight for truth and that he will refuse to be bull-dozed by those insidious "interests...
...achievements of all races and all times. Admitted also is the fact that intense war patriotism and the sort of feelings inspired against an enemy, call them hatred or not as you will, are not only local but are remembered for a relatively short period. Anything which helps to maintain such feelings beyond the time that they are needed for the preservation of unity and national health may rightly be considered to jeopardize the cause of permanent peace. And indeed there would seem to be some ground for the opinion that there is an anomaly in decorating a permanent collection...
...Sweringen brothers, Oris Paxton and Mantis James. Once they sold newspapers, and then they sold real estate, and now they have shifted to the buying side of merchandising and make railroads their specialty. Oris P. is 50, Mantis J. is 47; they are both bachelors; and, though some observers maintain that Oris P. is the Planner and Mantis J. is the Doer, they pride themselves upon being equal in all things and to share all things?even a reputed fraternal check book?in common...
...greater danger to the peace of Washington. Sir Esme Howard himself has voluntarily offered to set up a zone of local prohibition in the British embassy. And of course such an example of good-will from one power might necessitate similar action by others in order to maintain a proper diplomatic balance. What wonder that foreign capitals must be consulted...
...greater, thus making the wage-earner's pay-envelope extend comfortably beyond the bare necessities of life. The committee complimented U. S. industry upon its wisdom in realizing that its profits could best be based, not on an attempt to go back to pre-War wages or to maintain inflation prices, but upon increasing consumption through a policy of "low costs and high wages." Production and Consumption. Since 1922 primary production has increased about 17%, manufacturing and transportation about 28%. Greatest increase has come in per capita production, which increased 35% between 1922 and 1925. Consumption, however...