Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...controlled last year and the appointment of a competent advisory committee, there is no reason why Harvard should not turn out a good crew this year from the excellent material now in college. Unless the tables are turned soon, the interest in rowing will decline, for neither college can maintain any excitement over a continually one-sided contest...
...ability to beat Yale in the contest to-day. Both the fielding and the batting of the nine has improved greatly with its constant practice, and the steady work of the battery in all the games leaves nothing to be asked from that quarter except that it maintain its excellent standard. When we add to these indications in Harvard's favor the fact that the nine is to play on its own field, supported by a large body of men, the hopes for victory are certainly bright...
...bill is urged by politicians in order to catch the Grand Army vote.- 2. It is a scheme to lessen the surplus and thus maintain the tariff.- 3. It will increase the present great army of thieves and plunderers of the treasury: Public Opinion, II, 370-3; Nation, 40, p, 172; Nation, 43, p. 48; Vest's speech...
...destroyed. But by the use of compressed air in a long tube, thus imparting the velocity gradually, a 1000-pound bomb can be fired two miles without danger to the cannoneer, but with most disastrous effects on the object aimed at. The common notion that force is needed to maintain motion is erroneous; force is only needed to overcome resistance. Without opposition motion would continue forever after being once started. The planets continue to move only because no resistance is offered, otherwise they would have become stationary long ago. In connection with the effect of gravity on matter in motion...
...Memorial was-(1) to cut down the order list; (2) to increase the help, and (3) to appoint a new functionary, who should have a general supervision over the entire management of the buying, preparation and serving of food. He insisted that such an inspector was necessary to maintain continued improvement, and he said, furthermore, that under the present regime, repeated complaint would better matters for only a few days. Mr. Furber then opened the discussion in behalf of the negative. He said that no hotel was able to attend properly to the wants of seven hundred men within forty...