Word: remained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peasant I would say to myself: 'Well, America did not want to recognize us for 16 years, but, after all. was compelled to do it.' Yes, that is what the Russian peasant thinks. Our people, however, always liked America and they hope the two countries will remain friends...
...awarding of athletic insignia on the basis of participation in a certain percentage of scheduled contests has been adopted throughout the country, but at Harvard the laws of inertia apply with their usual force. The authorities have repudiated the "collegiate" ideals, but their stand will remain far from convincing until they modernize their system for recognition of athletic accomplishment, now maintained only because it is tradition, or because the alumni like...
...manager finally argued irate Dame Lucy into withdrawing the two most offensive paragraphs of her article from copies of the Saturday Review intended for the wholesale news dealers. "But I shall keep on in some other way!" she declared, repeating her determination not to let the British lion remain what she calls "a toothless old lap dog!" Next day itinerant vendors hawked furtively on the streets of London a special, unexpurgated issue of the Saturday Review...
...Tremendously powerful forces are now pressing the President to be more conservative," Mr. Bliven continued. "Other forces, not so powerful, but strong, are pressing him to be more radical. If the administration is to succeed, Roosevelt must remain the master of his own destinies however strong the opposition...
...slave-holders through the agency of a subsidized priesthood, as a means of keeping the slaves in check. Marriage owes its origin to the fact that the offspring of slaves had commercial value and for this reason were given prolonged care during childhood. This required that the parents remain together over a considerable period of time, and so led gradually to the institution of marriage...