Word: kept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blackout. We were afraid the audience wouldn't believe in this. So Professor Wood installed for us, against the theatre's back wall, one organ pipe, height circa 40 ft., the biggest pipe that could be carted through traffic and in the stage door. Its purpose was kept a mystery. Wood's idea was that the lowest of all notes, subaudible, but vibrating the eardrum, would produce, on cue, a sensation indefinable but eerie...
...piece of legislation. Congress last week passed a compromise bill (TIME, June 20) fixing minimum wages at 25^ an hour, maximum hours at 44 a week, providing for a 40^-40-hour standard after seven years, with flexible provisions mak-ing it tolerable to the industrial South which had kept the President from getting it before...
...gradually were subjected to Habsburg domination and in 1620, the Czech nobles were wiped out at the Battle of the White Mountain. Over a thousand years ago the Slovaks had been beaten into submission by the Hungarian Magyars. Through the centuries these peoples, like the Poles and the Irish, kept alive their national culture, agitated for liberation. The World War and Woodrow Wilson gave them their chance. Three Czech patriots actually achieved the nation's independence: gaunt, bearded Philosophy Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, who died nine months ago; the Czech soldier-astronomer General Milan Stef...
...became a convert to Catholicism. Eventually, as the result of persecutions by her onetime friends, she fled Manhattan, went to Baltimore to open the first Catholic parochial school, then to Emmitsburg, Md. to conduct the first American convent for the Sisters of Charity. Throughout her short life Mother Seton kept up a journal and a voluminous correspondence, with a remarkable literary quality which Author Feeney likens to Elizabeth Browning's. To her son William, who went to sea as a midshipman, she wrote passionately loving letters. Excerpt: "Last night I had you close where you used...
...every time they make a deposit, 5? every time they draw a check. CheckMaster is thus the first U. S. example of 100% money banking-a principle advocated by Yale's Professor Irving Fisher because it eliminates the dangers of bank runs since all deposits are kept liquid and because it restrains credit inflation since loans are not pyramided against depositors' cash...