Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharp contrast to the last stadium contest, the field should be dry and the weather clear. A crowd of 35,000, the largest of the year, is expected to watch the varsity endeavor to maintain its threat for first place honors. To do so, Harvard must stop or outscore the Tigers, and the first alternative is most unlikely...
...long are we going to maintain the fiction that the steel strike is a strike against the steel companies? At one time strikes were largely against the owners, but now, at least the big strikes are against the general public...
Time to Tighten Up. Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson had already proclaimed (TIME, Oct. 12) that "there is no longer justification" for European countries to maintain discriminatory restrictions against dollar imports. Washington also believes that if U.S. salesmen would get out and hustle, U.S. exports could be boosted significantly...
...joke, critics say, is not only on New York but on the artists whose pictures hang inside what Robert Moses once called "an inverted oatmeal dish." The museum's function, they maintain, has been defeated by the overpowering design; Wright's blindness to all other arts except architecture caused him deliberately to subordinate the hangings to the walls...
...strong measure of condemnation would not force the Chinese out of Tibet, but it would at least maintain the ideals of the United Nations. After promisingly energetic stands in the Korean and Suez crises, the U.N. seems headed down the familiar road of reluctance that destroyed its predecessor...