Word: maintains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision suited Wilt. Said he: "I know I hit the tape first." Don Gehrmann, who had taken the $500 silver cup back home to Wisconsin, felt he couldn't disagree more: "I still maintain I hit the tape first and it wrapped around my neck." Since there were at least two higher A.A.U. echelons that could be appealed to, there was a good chance that the Wanamaker Mile might be running all winter...
Some critics maintain he never made it. They consider that Waugh's green seas and white breakers lack the seasick lift and crash of the real thing, that his notion of daylight was a drab one, and that his wet brown rocks might as well have been chocolate ice cream. The public disagrees...
...think I can speak for a large segment of the alumni when I say that I do sincerely hope that these men see fit to maintain a respectable intercollegiate athletic program at Harvard College. They will search far before they will find a more cohesive force among a graduate body whose loyalty and generosity have helped make Harvard University an outstanding educational institution. Donald E. Greenholz...
...students over the average past enrollment. For the purchase of new equipment and limited expansion, the bill also provides the Surgeon General with a fund to distribute, as he sees fit, to the various schools. As the Association of American Medical Schools points out, this aid will barely maintain medical standards, let alone allow enlarging of the student body...
Here again the doctors' organization is primarily afraid of H.R. 5940 as an overture to socialized medicine. They claim the bill would provide "a subsidy for the unqualified political appointees, nullifying efforts of admissions committees to maintain standards" and thereby causing the public to lose faith in the profession...