Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...after all, the Jenkins affair is only one of a long series of intolerable situations. The Mexican government has proved conclusively that it does not want or has not the power to keep order. Discounting the "shady" activities of American capitalists, discounting the exaggerated rumors of border outrages, the people of the United States have strong grounds for exasperation. Mexico is a thorn a their side seemingly impossible to extract...
...foregoing quota only two classes, 1892 and 1901, had gone 'over the top' up to noon yesterday, when the classes were ranked by the committee so far as the estimated quota was concerned. These classes happen to be particularly active in their present class campaign in their endeavor to keep in the lead as regards amounts, and to perfect their standing as regards the number of subscriptions obtained." Classes before 1881, $1,500,000 From 1881 to 1900 inclusive, $8,000,000 From 1901 to 1910 inclusive, $2,500,000 From 1911 to 1919 inclusive...
...German in this country was in the United States Senate. Senator Borah, with his horrid fears that poor Germany was going to be crushed; Senator Reed, who was elected by the Germans of St. Louis; Senator Johnson, who apparently preferred, as long as the dear Germans could not keep Shantung, to do anything rather than let the "despicable Japanese" have what was promised them--all of them played into Germany's hands. If there be any doubt of this, one only need listen to the exultation from Berlin at the killing of the Treaty...
Yale came through the Princeton game last Saturday unscathed with the exception of Lay, whose right car was torn. This injury will not, however, keep him out of the game. No changes in line-up are expected to be made for Saturday; the coaches believe that Yale's strongest combination was that pitted against the Tigers...
...work that called for perhaps the sheerest courage of the war. Ploughing undramatically through the dangerous, fog-swept North Sea, constantly in danger of being wiped out by the deadly, unseen mine or the cowardly submarine, they made it possible for the capital ships of the Allied navies to keep the Germans bottled up and the sea-lanes open...