Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tariff bill were demoralized by the heat and the problem before them and, leaderless, were voting every which way, it was announced that the new cooling system in the Senate had been completely installed, that the equivalent of 350,000 lb. of ice per day would be "melted" to keep that chamber comfortable and steady its occupants' wobbly nerves, when the Senate reassembles...
...Ashville, N.C., City College last fortnight Dean Henry Dexter Learned gave students, including girls, permission to smoke in the college building between classes. An outraged Board of Education planned to meet and oust Dr. Learned. A committee of parents and students planned to keep him in. The Dean calmly explained: "If nobody smoked cigarets what would happen to the public school system of North Carolina? This is the biggest cigaret producing state in the Union...
...British Museum was able to announce: that Mrs. Noyes had sold her manuscript privately for ?32,476 ($157,500); that the money had been advanced by Mr. Morgan; that if the British Museum should raise ?32,476 within a year and pay it to Mr. Morgan they could keep the Luttrell Psalter forever; that anyhow they can keep it for a year on loan...
...unfriendly, not only because he thought his lameness set him apart, but because all social feelings were at a very low ebb in him. He felt all alone when his mother died-alone and on the downgrade of despair, until Ruth, sacrificing their reputations and her job, went to keep house for him, to take up the work of making a doctor out of him. She succeeded with her ?1,000 legacy and her advice, which he followed, that he substitute paying patients for charity ones. Society, the married state and the world outside Roper's Row claimed Chris...
...Insulls mean to continue their practical philanthropy, to buy more New England textile plants and thus "forestall financial ruin and consequent distress to numerous communities through enforced idleness of thousands of workers." In other words, having bought big stakes in New England, the Insulls must now help keep New England alive. They can afford to run a few textile mills at a loss if that will keep the workers there to buy light...