Word: keep
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Feeling that they have the support of the majority of Harvard students, a group of undergraduates and graduate students have formed the Harvard Committee Against Military Intervention to help keep the country...
Most violinists were content to let him keep his unplayable piece to himself. Not so Louis Krasner. This bald, soft-spoken Boston fiddler had already won sympathetic cheers for fighting his way through a similarly cacophonous, crossword concerto by Schönberg's pupil, Alban Berg. Stung by this new challenge, Krasner sent for Schönberg's piece and started in on it. For thankless months he sawed, plucked and stabbed away at its impossible chords and tuneless, jittery rhythms. "It was six months." said he, "before I began to understand...
...been as elated as small boys by this windfall. But by last week their town had grown to 5.000. Where there had been three people to a house, there now were twelve. Rents doubled, trailer camps toad-stooled, a carpenter lives in a truck with an oil stove to keep him warm. Wrote one harassed inhabitant in the Louisville Courier-Journal: ". . . Although we were paid well for our acreage, still it isn't so easy to stand by and see the familiar old oak, the lilacs, hollyhocks and roses around the door trampled under foot to make...
...vessels. So are many of the 23 private yards equipped to build ocean-going vessels of 300 feet or more in length. The private yards have also contracted to construct 176 merchant ships: 124 for the Maritime Commission, 52 (mostly tankers) for private firms. This is enough orders to keep their 83 ways busy more than a year, even if all the ways are used without interruption. Last week, when representatives of the industry met in Washington with Defense Commission experts and labor men, it became clear that interruptions were occurring. The cause: shortage of skilled workmen...
...prove his point, Dissenter White worked on a life of Shelley for some 20 years, last fortnight published it. Author White's book is a good piece of scholarship and literary organization which he somehow managed to keep lively, fluent and exciting while packing its two volumes and 1,563 pages with practically every known fact about Shelley...