Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worry about, Bucharest's 900,000 sophisticated, easygoing, sensuous citizens are at last earning the title which the city long ago assumed but never quite deserved-"Paris of the East." The Nippon bar, hangout of lonely, pleasure-bent males, and the Colorado, more elegant and respectable cabaret, keep open nightly until 5:30 a.m. On the less naughty side of Bucharest serious politicians relax at famed Café Capsa. The big, swanky outdoor terrace of the Cercul Militar (Army Club), facing the Calea Victoriei, is filled nightly with resplendently uniformed officers and smartly turned-out women. Caviar, juicy steaks...
...home was to shoot all the Nazi plotters he could find. During the summer he visited President Ismet Inönü of Turkey. When World War II started Rumania formally declared its neutrality, and none hoped more fervently than Carol II that Rumania would be able to keep...
This year conservative opposition is headed up by the Independent nominee, General Juan Andreu Almazán, running on a platform which promises to slow down the rate of change but to keep some of the more important recent reforms-i.e., the agrarian program, nationalization of oil, etc. Normally an opposition nominee has about as much chance in a Mexican election as a dray horse in a sulky race, but Candidate Almazán has picked up much support and he is given an outside chance to win. The P. R. M. did not have to think even once...
...glass vessel. He took ova from a doe rabbit, sperm from a buck, mixed them in a culture flask, implanted the fertilized ova in another doe which, at term, produced a fine litter (TIME, March 12, 1934). Since then the scientist has been able, by skillful coddling, to keep fertilized ova alive for ten days in vitro before implantation in the mother...
...members who are not at least middleaged, meets in London to have a good go at the bells of Westminster Abbey and other London belfries. These meetings have been held every year since 1637. Even London's great plague of 1665, and the fire of 1666, failed to keep the College Youths from their appointed bongfest. Last week, at the Society's 302nd annual shindig, the "Bore War" did what fire and plague could not. This time the members did their Stedman Caters and Oxford Singles with hand bells in the upstairs room of a blacked-out London...