Word: maintains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...costs every U.S. citizen about 5? a year to maintain the Library of Congress. Last week, in its annual report, the library told what all the nickels had accomplished...
Hits & History. There are plenty of fans who maintain that Ted has already achieved it. They consider him a greater player than even jolting Joe DiMaggio of the Yankees and Stan ("The Man") Musal of the St. Louis Cardinals. As proof, they point to Ted's 43 homers last year (265 in eight seasons*) and his eight-year batting average with the Red Sox. At .353 it is the third highest in modern baseball records, right behind Ty Cobb's .367 (for 24 seasons) and Rogers Hornsby's .358 (for 23) and ahead of such immortals...
...other's equipment. When the contracts expire, the roads may return the cars to Equitable, or rent them for another ten years at 20? a day. "We think," said Carry, "that the railroads will see that it will cost less to rent modern cars than to repair and maintain aged ones." At week's end Champ Carry, who calls most rail presidents by their first names, was ready to sign up his first major railroad under Equitable's plan...
Brilliantly in Greek. Some people maintain that Manchester was the only place where Harold Laski could have been born. Manchester had nursed the industrial revolution and produced the "Manchester school" of laissez-faire liberals e.g., John Bright, Jeremy Bentham, Richard Cobden. State Planner Harold Laski, the argument went, was History's revenge on the city of Manchester...
...Student Council sub-committee on DP's estimates the foreign students' expenses at about $1,500 spiece. The University provided tuition scholarships last year and will do so again if the DP's maintain Group IV grades...