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Word: kept (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crawling through the woods, shot it out with the Preskitts for two hours. One intruder was carried away with a shattered jaw, his chest and abdomen peppered with buckshot. The Preskitts finally gave in, agreed to close down their mine until "an agreement" could be reached. But other independents kept operating. "We're going to stay in operation unless we're shot out," roared one owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Trouble in the Hill Country | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Arthur Compton chancellor of the university, says the exclusion of Shortliffe is "because of negligence or because of evidence that is kept secret...

Author: By David RIESMAN Jr., | Title: Shortliffe, "Liberal Socialist," Denied U.S. Visa | 10/4/1949 | See Source »

...Chancellor then spoke of the action that has kept Shortliffe out of this country...

Author: By David RIESMAN Jr., | Title: Shortliffe, "Liberal Socialist," Denied U.S. Visa | 10/4/1949 | See Source »

...delay which over a period of five months has prevented the university from getting a decision on Mr. Shortliffe's entry means exclusion became of negligence or because of evidence that is kept secret...

Author: By David RIESMAN Jr., | Title: Shortliffe, "Liberal Socialist," Denied U.S. Visa | 10/4/1949 | See Source »

Back in the U.S., Putnam joined the Communist Party, did a literary column for the Daily Worker, was an associate editor of the New Masses, kept on translating (Novelists Ignazio Silone, Georges Duhamel) and writing his own books (Paris Was Our Mistress, Marvelous Journey). He spent eight years with the party in "misguided humility" before he quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wineskin into Giant | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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