Word: maintained
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...common with colleges throughout the nation Harvard officials have upped the quota of this year's batch of Yardlings in an attempt to maintain at normal levels a student body badly crippled by the draft and the needs of national defense...
...stated once more that if the British, Dutch, Norwegian and Russian Navies are destroyed, the American Navy cannot now or in the future maintain freedom of the seas against the world...
...corn-fed juvenile of the silent films, went broke in Hollywood. . .The Safe Deposit and Trust Co. of Baltimore, guardians of eight-year-old Christopher Smith Reynolds, son of Torchsinger Libby Holman and the late, tobacco-wealthy Zachary Smith Reynolds, declared it cost them $6,944.44 a month to maintain the boy. . . Harry K. Thaw, 70, wealthy playboy slayer of Architect Stanford White in 1906, turned up in Saratoga at the races. . . Divorced at last were Lois De Fee (6 ft. 2 in.) and Billy Curtis (4 ft.), married as a publicity stunt...
...Douglas Bader was valuable for his character, these men were valuable in terms of pounds, shillings and pence. It cost at least $100,000 apiece to train and maintain the 23 pilots who were killed in both crashes, up to the time when they began ferrying. The planes which crashed were presumably Consolidated B-24 Liberators, worth about $250,000 each. Total loss in the two crashes: at least...
...colonies draft their soldier armies and maintain balance in their incredible caste systems was cleared up last week by a Chicago zoologist. The secret: a "social hormone" exuded by some of the ants to inhibit the others...