Word: kept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their acid comments, Low's cartoons have usually had an owlish, good-natured air that kept them from being really bitter. He presented people as stupid and self-righteous rather than wicked or frightening. For years his satire has been summed up in Colonel Blimp, a pathetically pompous old walrus who inhabits a Turkish bath and periodically sounds off. "Gad, sir," exclaims the Colonel, in a cartoon called Onward, Colonel Blimp! "the reason our government is always getting kicked in the pants is that it doesn't stand with its back to the wall." Although Low has carried...
...counsel with his Cabinet, last week picked the six members from his executive branches who will sit with six from Congress on the potent temporary National Economic Committee, better known as the Monopoly Investigation (TIME, June 20). Because the President originally asked for an all-executive committee, because Congress kept control of only one-fifth of the $500,000 expense money it voted, and because of the six Congress members at least one, Representative Eicher of Iowa, is an Administration wheelhorse, the six executives will doubtless dominate the committee's policy. Significantly, not the President but his trust-busting...
Little mountain-locked Switzerland, with a tradition of neutrality rooted four centuries back, kept out of the last war and is determined to keep out of the next. At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, France, Switzerland's neighbor on the west, assured her that her neutrality would be kept inviolate. Last week she received the same assurance from her other two neighbors, Italy and Germany, Europe's major nonLeague powers...
...shaft of hollow pipe, in 30-ft. lengths screwed together. A powerful steam engine on the surface spins the pipe and the bit. When a bit needs changing, all the pipe must be snaked out of the hole and then lowered again by the derrick. The pipe is kept full of mud to counteract the gas pressures below, which might otherwise blow out destructively...
...epidemic of Asiatic cholera which Europe knew. It began in 1826, reached Russia in 1830, England in 1831. Another wave spread to Mecca, Egypt, England and, in 1832, to the U. S. Last of successive pandemics touched the U. S. as late as 1911, and the disease has been kept out of the country since only by close medical inspection of every sailor and traveler who enters a U. S. port...