Word: keep
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Perhaps to keep up with TIME I should have written: Sirs: I'll wager TIME's phalanstery does not embrace TIME's conatus at the laconical when it used "obsquatulate" where "beat" would not only have sufficed but improved...
...speech was one of the most effective, skillful briefs yet delivered for the Allied cause. It was the sort of talk which earns Britain a reputation for fair dealing and open-minded thinking. To keep its sprawling Empire together Britain needs that reputation as much as she needs her powerful Navy. As a Nazi critic once remarked, the "weakness" of Britain is that she can no longer survive without the moral approbation of the world. Today, in such widely separated capitals as Ankara, Buenos Aires, Rome and Stockholm, other British envoys besides Lothian are working just as hard to convince...
...only too willing to leave education to his elders, will have much greater interest in the theory behind any possible change. More and more is his own education becoming the subject of his thought and attention. To organizations around Harvard, a new field is opening. Inter-house debating should keep the question alive and hash out a problem which should be as vital to most undergraduates as their own courses. Other groups like the Student Union of Phillips Brooks, which have partly concerned themselves with education, should enlarge their activities towards this end even further. From the Boylston Chemical Society...
Nowadays a man or woman who climbs into a regularly scheduled U. S. transport plane should feel in good hands. U. S. airlines closed 1939 last week with a banner year for safety. The airlines keep their fingers crossed, fearful that slips of one kind or another may still cause accidents. But the ramified science of air safety-including training and supervision of personnel, operation rules, technological aids -last year entered...
...reached New York as the least important of Anna Held's four press agents. Subsequent ups & downs turned him into a heavily liveried doorman at the old Century Theatre, into editor of The American Angler while knowing nothing about fish. He offered his readers such advice as "keep your fly in the water, the trout don't live in trees," then resigned, "not without considerable support from the public...