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Word: keeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Junior class crew, which also rowed, kept pace with the two leading crews for the first quarter mile, but gradually dropped behind after that point. The lightweights continued to keep the half length's lead over the third University crew which they had taken early in the race, responding to every attempt the latter made to pass. At the bend in the river by the Weeks bridge the leading crew increased its margin, but dropped back again when it had the outside on the next bend. At the finish it was almost a dozen feet behind the hand-pressing third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIRD UNIVERSITY CREW BEATS LIGHTWEIGHTS | 5/24/1929 | See Source »

...situation in regard to the Freshman court is but little more encouraging. The regular Freshman quintet and the interfraternity league combine to keep this space in use from 2 until 10 o'clock every day of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NET PROFIT | 5/21/1929 | See Source »

...unpaid. Mr. Simmons must keep a substitute on the Exchange floor to represent his firm. Longest previous presidency was that of Henry G. S. Noble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Capital v. Credit | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...taxied 25 yards and his machine took the air. Beginning to climb at an angle of 30 degrees, he went upward at the rate of 3,000 ft. per minute. In four minutes he had climbed two miles. He took a sniff of his oxygen to keep his head clear. The climb became only 2,000 feet a minute. He climbed three, four, five, six miles. The engine began to slow down for lack of air. He turned on the super charger to increase air pressure in the carburetor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honolulu Liners? | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...front page of yesterday's News was the following item: "Harvard will play Princeton in a dual golf match on the Ray Tompkins Memorial Links tomorrow morning". The statement does not sound startling in itself, but it does show the utter futility of two great universities trying to keep at arms length from each other for an appreciable length of time. Harvard and Princeton have officially severed football relations for an indefinite period. Concerning the much-discussed break there is apparently much to be said on both sides. The irony of the situation is palpable enough, however, when we consider...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Friendly Game of Golf | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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