Word: kept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three days earlier, Shanghai's Nationalist defenders had announced: "We will fight to the last drop of blood." Most Shanghailanders fervently hoped that this promise would not be kept. They regarded the Nationalist cause as hopeless, and feared that a prolonged defense would bring nothing but pillage and destruction to the world's fourth* largest city...
...Italy kept the Friendship...
...French birth rate used to be taken as evidence of race suicide and moral decay; it is now higher than at any time since records were first kept in the 18th Century. On the eve of World War II the rate was 14.6 per 1,000 population. It has risen to 19.6. Reported Paris last week: 864,000 babies were born in France in 1948-as against 612,000 in 1939. The death rate was down: 506,000 in 1948 as against 642,000 in 1939. In the past three years, French population has increased by nearly...
...moving past its fins fast enough to provide steering control. The Germans got around this difficulty by putting small, movable graphite vanes in the blast of hot gas from the combustion chamber. By deflecting the gas stream slightly when the rocket wobbled, the vanes kept it upright until it was moving fast enough for the outside fins to take over...
With remarkable skill, this single-cylinder fantasy has somehow been kept in motion by Director Lloyd Bacon (Mother-Is a Freshman) and Writer Valentine Davies (Miracle on 34th Street), who apparently have a gift for making a fairly funny movie out of a downright silly idea. Even so, without the sly comedy sense of Veteran Milland and the pug-faced antics of Paul Douglas, Every Spring could easily have struck out in the second reel...