Word: kept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been in ten years. He flexed his arm, and his biceps were hard as the heel of his shoe. (He works with dumbbells every morning.) I think he'd love a chance to take someone on and show how much of the boxing cunning he has kept from the days when he held the championship of City College...
...Polish descent), finally shot her in the hips, chest, stomach with a shotgun. Throughout the U. S. men & women streamed to the Polish, German, British, French and Italian consulates, offering to enlist as reserves, volunteers, nurses. U. S. Poles quickly collected $1,000,000 for Warsaw. Everywhere consulates kept open doors all day except the British, which closed each afternoon at 3:30 p. m. for 4 o'clock tea. Thousands of aliens rushed to naturalization offices, seeking U. S. citizenship in a hurry...
...this principle were established throughout the world, the freedom of our own country . . . would be in danger. . . . But far more than this, the peoples of the world would be kept in the bondage of fear...
After the Nazi-Communist pact had brought together the Church's two bitterest enemies, diplomatic activity in the Vatican became more intense than ever. It kept right on after war came. Pius XII recalled his vacationing Secretary of State, Luigi Cardinal Maglione. Together they composed last minute appeals, conferred with ambassadors to the Holy...
Kenneth Clark does not press profoundly into the conflicts of da Vinci's character. But he is often suggestive, as when he says that Leonardo's restless versatility, which in later life kept him busy experimenting with grandiose and unpractical engineering projects when he should have been painting, was "a disease of the will similar to that which ruined the magnificent intellect of Coleridge." Like Coleridge da Vinci had a turbulent romantic imagination. In his unfinished Adoration of the Kings he painted what Clark calls "the most revolutionary and anticlassical picture of the 15th Century," extraordinary for an El Grecoesque...