Word: maintained
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...true centre is inhuman : it is Lucy, a falcon with "maniacal eyes," who rides the Irishwoman's wrist and devours, from her bloody glove, a new-slain pigeon. While the chauffeur and the servants go backstairs to evolve the cruel jealousies of simple blood, and the Americans maintain their delicately sterile balance, the Irish pair talk. Most of their talk is of the falcon, whom the husband hates to desperation, and to whom the woman is attached as to her own soul. The American narrator identifies the bird now with the husband, now with the wife, shows...
...There the report of the executive council denounced racketeering and William Green's keynote address urged labor unity, accused John Lewis of having blocked it before. During his speech William Green was told that John Lewis had announced his resignation. Said William Green: "I still maintain that his resignation . . . will mean nothing unless he also resigns from the United Mine Workers...
...which stands in front of Boylston has been one of the great mysteries of Harvard Yard. During the past several years, many attempts have been made to solve the mystery. Some say that it formerly occupied a prominent position in the men's room of the Parker House; others maintain that it is the work of one Paul Bunyan who can be seen slipping casually through the Streets of Cambridge every Saturday evening after the football games; there is still a third school of thought, originating from the Sociology department, which insists that the monument indicates a cultural...
...fullest sense; perhaps, therefore, a partial suspension of democracy, as in World War I, he had repeatedly pledged himself to preserve the labor and social reforms made under the New Deal. For no one knew better than he how quickly, unless someone in authority was determined to maintain them, those reforms could go out the window in a crisis...
...last January, by September had sunk to $14,030,000. Result: in the first nine months of 1940 she had an unfavorable trade balance. This has forced her to ship $28,400,000 of her $403,000,000 gold reserve to the U. S. since September, in order to maintain her cash balances. Argentina's politicos have their own idea of what kind of Good Neighbor the U. S. ought...