Word: kept
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...caught on" to his delivery and batted out sixteen runs in the three innings which he pitched. In the third innings by ten hits well bunched and by five errors of '89, '87 made 12 runs. At the end of third inning '89 put McPherson in the box, who kept '87 down to the three hits...
...That goods be sold in general at a slightly greater advance above cost, and at slightly higher prices, than at present. The prices, however, to be kept below ordinary retail prices; the prices of college text-books are not to be raised at all; and in special cases prices may be reduced, at the discretion of the Board of Overseers and the superintendent to any extent required to hold the business of the Society...
...That a record be kept of the profits made on each member's purchases; and that, at the end of the fiscal year, the net profits of the entire business be divided among the members in the proportion which the gross profit made on each member's transactions bears to the total gross profits made on the transactions of all the members. But before dividing net profits, a certain part, to be determined by the directors is to be retained to cover depreciation of stock, and a further part retained to increase the Society's capital...
...dominions. He could climb up the rock Smalserhorn and fix his shield on the top of it; he could walk round the outside of a boat upon oars, while the men were rowing; he could play with three darts, alternately throwing them in the air, and always kept two of them up, while he held the third in one of his hands; he was ambidexter, and could cast two darts at once, and he excelled all men of his time in shooting with the bow, and he had no equal in swimming...
...become so fashionable at Yale for single scullers and other venturesome oarsmen to upset in the harbor, that a light skiff is kept in readiness at the boat house to rescue all those who think enthusiasm the only thing needed to make a man an accomplished oarsman...