Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park, Rev. Frank R. Wilson had his telephone disconnected to keep people from pestering him for seats at the service he will perform Sunday in St. James Episcopal ("the President's") Church, with presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker of the U. S. Protestant Episcopal Church preaching the sermon. Rector Wilson declared that faithful past church attendance would now yield a dividend: regular worshippers would get seats, others would have to stand in the grounds outside. He also put churchmanlike perspective on all the hullabaloo. Said he: "We realize it is a great honor that our church will...
...Florida the law says that a political party must poll at least 15% of votes cast in general elections to keep its place on the ballot at the next election. Two years ago the required figure was 30%, but the Legislature lowered it for the benefit of the Republican Party. Last week Florida's Legislature acted again, cut the figure to 5% for the vestigial...
...Under Britain's new conscription law the Government can call up reserves without publicly announcing it, a facility the dictators have long used to scare their adversaries. Last week there began a quiet, gradual mobilization of reservists in Britain which is expected to keep under arms throughout the summer and autumn, Europe's danger period, some...
...bike-race telecast was transmitted via a telephone exchange near the Garden, over a regular telephone connection to the studios in Radio City. Not quite as simple as telephoning the grocer, telephoning television requires an amplifier to boost the signal along, and a device called an equalizer to keep the multiple frequencies in step at the receiving point in the studio. Already being experimented with in England, telephone wire's aptitude for television led some optimistic engineers last week to envision the possibility for a U. S. television network within a year...
...reason why U. S. rural dwellers get poorer medical care than their city cousins is the backwardness of the average country doctor, who does little to keep up with the rapid progress of medicine. Alert young physicians no longer settle in the country, and, according to Associate Professor of Medicine John Barlow Youmans of Tennessee's Vanderbilt University, 10% to 20% of country doctors "will not take postgraduate training on their own initiative, even when opportunities are available...