Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three throat operations, the last performed without an anesthetic, had not daunted Bratiano's spirit. He composed himself to sleep, inhaling pure oxygen, his swollen throat kept open by an inserted silver tube. As midnight tolled from a distant spire, the Premier stirred and seemed to rally. Then drops of an evil pus were discovered in his throat. Blood poisoning had set in. The great statesman who had doubled the area of Rumania during his eleven premierships was told that Death would surely claim him before dawn...
Eight of the following will be kept after tomorrow's tryout...
...manifestly something stultifying in our former methods of instruction. The faults that will be shown by experience to come through the use of the reading period will quite possibly be those of a too elaborate effort on the part of instructors to make sure that the student is kept busy. The reading assignments are apt to be made merely an extension of course control, and to be made too heavy to permit the honest performance of the required task. Two weeks and a half might profitably be spent in milling over the courses, in pulling them together, in completing...
...journey, it reminded him of an interminable effort. He had never, on any occasion, been content when he began writing on it, he had never been honestly satisfied when he pushed back his chair and left it. But John Jeffrey, his valet, seemed to admire its neat construction; he kept Byron's shaving apparatus neatly tucked away in a hidden compartment which could be opened only by pulling a certain brass bolt...
...frightened girl. His support lends much point to that baffled breathlessness, that twitching of the limbs and lips, that broken laughter and word-fumbling by which Miss Lord intensifies hopelessness. O. P. Heggie, with pursed smile, elusive spectacles and amiable absentmindedness, is her dreamy father. In the epilog, kept at opposite ends of a bare table by her prison's regulations, they still try to pretend to gether, try to laugh "that such a thing should happen to people like...