Word: kept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Already a petition is going the rounds in New England, which will carry signatures of seventy-five to one hundred thousand people demanding that the TIME Magazine be kept off every newspaper stand in this section...
...neutral zone or to declaring a general amnesty, decided to open the French border not only to the fleeing army but to as many civilians as cared to enter. Probably what helped France make up her mind was the thought of what might have happened had the frontier been kept sealed. The Loyalist Army might well have decided to make a suicidal last stand on the border. Both a massacre and an international incident were possible...
...Catalonia fast disappearing and with no safe haven for the paintings remaining, Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo early last week went to Perpignan, France, to arrange for their transfer to Geneva. From League authorities Señor Alvarez del Vayo extracted: 1) a promise that the art be kept under guard until the war is over; 2) a solemn assurance that the paintings remain forever the property of Spain, no matter what government is finally installed in Spain. Particularly did Minister Alvarez del Vayo want to make sure that the art would not fall into Italy...
Particularly at a winter sports carnival, ostensibly to glorify the Healthy Body and Soul, is the bottle an unwanted visitor. As Professor Hisaw maintains, "In any display of athletic prowess, the neural pathways must be kept clear from the effects of alcohol." An examination of complete skiing records shows that no skiing championship has ever been won by an intoxicated...
What three British flying officers-Group Captain George C. Pirie, Aviation Attaché at the Washington Embassy, a Royal Air Force officer and a Canadian aircraft inspector-learned last week about. the crash of Imperial Airways' Bermuda-bound flying boat they kept to themselves. The Cavalier itself lay peacefully not far from the scandal-smeared hull of the steamer, Vestris (1928), 300 miles from where the Mono Castle burned (1934). But it was no secret that the Cavalier, like these ill-fated steamships, had been caught in circumstances for which it was unprepared and had muddled through pretty sloppily...