Word: kept
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Both sides now played with great vigor. The Bostons crowded their men up into our attack field and kept our defence very busy. Peabody's steady play defeated the Boston attack again and again, and finally sent the ball to the centre, where Blodgett secured it and rushed in. His throw was checked, but Robinson was on the alert and swiped out third goal. Time, 13 minutes...
...turned into a receiving ship. When a U. S. marine finishes a voyage, unless he goes off on leave or is discharged, he is sent here till his ship goes to sea again. The ship serves more or less as a school ship. The men on board are kept in practice all the time, and young fellows like me are sent here and learn the tricks of the trade and how to be generally useful. This is the main deck." - It was broad and very smooth and clean and sunny - "These old guns are not much use now; they...
...four years, up to the last few months, this rule has been adhered to, and very little delay in being served experienced. But within the last few months, all this has been changed, and a new order of things prevails. An order of things under which waiters are kept in line from twenty to forty-five minutes while some mysterious cook below stairs fills the orders. Meanwhile at the tables men sit and munch bread, or losing all patience, adjourn to the Holly Tree...
...main floor are Turkish baths, sponge-baths, shower-baths, vapor-baths and a magnificent plunge-bath, which is 75 feet by 30, and 15 feet deep; it is lined with encrustic tiling, and is constantly kept supplied with fresh water; a private stair-way connects the dressing-rooms with these paths. Down stairs is a bowling alley which is very well patronized...
...magazine had capacity for fifty tons of powder, and was usually kept pretty well filled. The bulk of the powder belonged to private parties, although the State always stored there to some extent...