Word: keepings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From 12 until 2 o'clock the student advisory committee will keep hours in the Common Rooms of the Freshman dormitories. They will be glad to offer any advice or information which might possibly help the new man in getting oriented. They will continue to keep hours until September...
...tricked. On the other hand the innocently profiting banks have legally collected a legal debt and, considering the Bank of Telluride's condition, they perhaps received their money in the only manner that it could ever have been obtained. Should they consider it their duty to their depositors to keep this money, many a fine legal mind will soon be struggling with the problem of whether a certified check is credit or money?whether it is a promise to pay or an actual payment...
...horses but not his temper under control, the farmer pulled a big, black, Balkan pistol from his waistband, punctuated his curses with bullets. Shots riddled the windshield and the rear windows of the Liaptcheff car. Only by sliding prudently to the floor did Bulgaria's Prime Minister keep his skin whole...
William B. Ogden, Chicago's first great realtor, was bitterly disappointed when he first arrived, but in the '40s Garlic Creek became the Chicago River. In 1861 Cook County offered $300 for each substitute, to keep the county free of conscription. In 1867 Chicago "had the pick of the best food and nothing remained but to know how to cook it." Bismarck, campaigning against the French, said to General Sherman: "I wish I could see that Chicago...
...scholars of Teacher Crabtree heard him urge them to combine to demand from Federal and State legislators educational facilities equal to those of city schools, just as they are combining to merchandise their produce. They were advised to better their schools, make the farm-bred healthy and wise, keep them on the farm...