Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grundy: In the Civil War we contributed more than any other State to keep the Union together?...
...Preacher Everson became a full-fledged Major-General of the Regular Army (pay and allowances: $9,700). His job: to administer the $27,000,000 per year the U. S. provides to help maintain guard units; to supply them with U. S. equipment, regular Army officers for training; to keep them up to Regular Army standards...
...square chin is softened by the fact that it tops a neck like that of a warbling thrush or bullfrog. But the mustache is close-clipped, businesslike, and the hard, unflickering hazel eyes keep their level aim behind efficient, rimless glasses. Appropriately L'Americain is of mixed blood, with a faint ancestral dash of German...
Married. Bainbridge Colby, 59, Wilsonian Secretary of State; and a Mrs. Anne Von Ahlstrand Ely, 39, in Brooklyn. Last month he was divorced at Reno by Mrs. Nathalie Sedgwick Colby, from whom he had sought divorce in Paris; with whom he had a $1,500-per-month agreement to keep her from ridiculing him in her writings...
...property of complex situations that studies of them usually result in a confirmation of the prejudices of the observer. Only the trained experimentalist can keep from selecting those features of the situation which prove his point and neglect the other pertinent but obscure factors. Edward J. O'Brien is not a trained social experimentalist. In "Dance of the Machines' 'he does succeed in focussing a brilliant spot-light upon many of the deadening influences of the machine upon the American mind, but he is far from successful in proving that the machine and its concimmitants give rise...