Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Peerers at Ambassador Culburtson would have seen a very flower among U. S. diplomats, not a shirt-sleever, not a spat-wearing expatriate, but a comfortable man of kindly shrewdness, a man from Emporia who walked unruffled through Rumanian intrigue, won confidence, kept respect. Minister Culburtson was in Bucharest when the late Prime Minister Jon Bratiano heard from trustworthy sources of the effect produced upon U. S. public opinion by the tour of Queen Marie, and despatched the secret cablegram which resulted in Her Majesty's precipitant return...
...9/10 of its pre-War value (5 francs to $1). By soundest generalship, some retrenchments, and chiefly by the sheer confidence-inspiring power of his personality, M. Poincare caused the franc to double in value without resorting to a foreign loan (TIME, January 3, 1927). That value has been kept stable de facto for 18 months; and now it becomes the approximate stabilized value de jure. For the present, paper francs will be exchangeable for gold bullion and only in relatively large blocs. This will be followed by a new gold coinage and soon almost every French peasant will again...
...decision of the Imperial Household Ministry a secret was revealed, last week, which had been successfully kept from the Japanese press and public for over a month...
...these defining terms. In the singles she beat Mrs. Watson and Miss Bennett; little Helen Jacobs put out Betty Nuthall, but both Mrs. Watson and Miss Bennett beat skinny, brown-faced Molla Mallory, who was once unbeatable. Everything depended on the doubles. Playing with Penelope Anderson, Miss Wills kept looking around nervously to see if she was expected to take balls that dropped in the middle of the court. Unsure at the net, she stayed in the back court, hit her drives hard, but kept putting them out or in the net with the result that she and her partner...
Just as the War began Dr. Albee was demonstrating original methods of bone grafting in Germany, England and France. He kept on in the French military hospitals, and later in those of the A. E. F. His invention of replacing, by bone grafts, parts of the spine diseased by tuberculosis goes by his name...