Word: kept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corporation; it was stimulating, exciting for the workers: something new in the newspapers every day, and no man knew when his marching orders might come. Moreover, a few men at a time were exerting pressure as menacing as a general walkout would be, while those still at work kept drawing...
Behind all this were two American ideas. One was the simple humanitarian idea that U. S. hands should not be bloodied by making guns and bullets by which men anywhere were killed and maimed. The other was that the U. S. could be kept out of war if it did not become financially interested in selling arms, and its ships and citizens were made to keep away from the shooting...
...last week NBC was busy handling dozens of complaints from irate people whom television sounds kept butting in on. To radio fans NBC in desperation sent six pages of technical instructions on how to eliminate television's interference. Mr. Knox got another type of earphone and waited for the next squall...
...Monroe Doctrine has kept European armies out of South America but it cannot keep out European voices. Lately the U. S. Government has been so worried about short-wave propaganda broadcasts to South America by Germany and Italy that it has considered establishing a Federal radio station to compete with them. Not to be caught napping, U. S. private broadcasters, who fear a Government yardstick station as the devil fears holy water, two years ago began to bid with renewed wattage and State Department tutoring for the ears of the South American audience...
...Bird (John Rollin Ridge), half-Cherokee son of a Georgia plantation owner, contributed the West's most famous folk tale in The Life & Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit. Most talented woman writer was tall, dark-eyed Ina Donna Coolbrith, sweetheart of the writing colony, who kept her past a dark secret because she was the niece of Mormon prophet Joseph Smith...