Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bless and keep...
...These few simple garments make for speedy dressing; they will give adequate protection if the worker gets overwarm and will keep tidy and give good hard wear...
Poland, the land of Copernicus, Chopin, Mme Curie, Paderewski, is one place where estheticism and the laboratory spirit are not considered synonymous with general debility. And so it has been perfectly natural for Edward Smigly-Rydz to keep up his painting. One of the works of which the clean-shaven, egg-bald General is proudest is a self-portrait, with a beard and a shock of hair...
...urgent war to keep Poland from falling apart. General Smigly-Rydz's main concern was not whether it was to be a world war or a local war, whether casualties were to be ten or 10,000,000. What was important was that Poland, which had so often divided, should not divide again...
...Holy, and bloody, wars have been fought before: Crusades, the Japanese against Communism, the Spanish Catholic Church against Communism. But this war was being fought, as no war had ever been fought before, to keep a country together against the black forces of paganism. And it was up to 4,000,000 men aided by the indirect action of some Allies, to do the job. "The Army," said Edward Smigly-Rydz once, "is the national glue...