Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...himself promoted to the post of "head trainer and manager of the Calumet Farm Training Stable," and turned the heavy chores over to Jimmy. Since then the stable has often raced in two divisions, with horses and trainers interchangeable. No matter who tightens the saddle girths, the horses keep on winning. Financially, it is a family stand-off with each of the Joneses getting a $12,000-a-year salary plus 5% of all purses won by Calumet (or some $160,000 apiece in the last two years...
...market gave the bears some mild encouragement; the Dow-Jones industrial average closed last week at 173.49. off 1.71 points. Did the big rise in "shorts" mean that the market was likely to keep on going down? Paradoxically, many Wall Streeters thought it meant just the opposite. They argued that any rise would scare the bears into "covering" (i.e., buy in the stocks they sold short), thus give the market an added boost. On the other hand, if the market dropped further, the bears would also buy so they could take their profits, thus check the drop...
...almost three months the British had wrangled over whether the picture should be shown. A critic who saw it in Brussels urged that its exhibition be restricted to such professionals as doctors and magistrates. Published stills stimulated organized squeamishness; 140 London nurses petitioned the board of film censors to keep The Snake Pit off British screens because it showed "mental hospital nurses as harsh, unemotional and often cruel...
...each print anywhere from two to a dozen books a year. Press runs usually hover around 5,000. Yet such midget firms as Prime Press in Philadelphia, Fantasy Press in Reading, Pa. and Shasta Press in Chicago eke out profits from their small printings, for two reasons: 1) they keep advertising and other overhead costs to a minimum, and 2) they can count on regular patronage from their own rabid fans...
This new biography makes it clear how Emerson struggled to keep close to the common life. It was not easy. Born in Boston in 1803, the son of a preacher, forbidden to play with "rude boys," Ralph Waldo used to hang on the fence, peering down the street in the hope that he would discover what a rude...