Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is much in this to bewilder the average hearer. If the President means merely that this country should keep alive the civilized ideals upon which an enduring peace must be based, then it is indeed possible for us to devote ourselves to the "tasks at home," while yet mildly influencing the solution of the problems abroad. But if instead, as his naked words seem to indicate, Mr. Conant visualizes something more definite than this, if he is urging the United States to take a positive leadership in the peace settlement, then his position is untenable. Even the most remote...
President James B. Conant urged the country to keep cool despite the war and to remain the "last citadel" of reason and the home of scholarship, when he delivered an address yesterday morning at the Chapel Service in Harvard Memorial Church...
Anna is in a cot beside her, humbly dying of tuberculosis. Dr. Ditten performed the operation that saved Emmy's life for the scaffold-she had heard him ask permission to operate, just to keep his hand in. Emmy does not know that when the doctor was a boy he had treasured a photograph of her. When he tells her this, in his cold way, she has a moment of wild hope that he may save her, soon feels like a romantic fool as he goes on to give her a political lecture...
...differences, since Machiavelli planted his ideas so diplomatically that readers expecting something diabolic in the book are sometimes disappointed. But since it came off the Vatican presses in 1532, politicians of all shades have found the Prince such a helpful manual of power, how to get and how to keep it, that it has shared their admiration with only one other book, von Clausewitz's On War. Napoleon called it "the only readable political book." Lenin told his Bolsheviks to read the Prince "as an antidote to stupidity...
...rise in circulation was attributed to a decrease in the length of time for which books could be held from one months to two weeks. This change, effected a year ago, made more books available for withdrawal by limiting the time for which any one person could keep a volume...