Word: kept
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...room, "Mr. Smith, account for this very strange construction." "Can't do it, sir;" and then hears Miss Jones say that it is an anacolouthon. No wonder, he thinks, that so many of our colleges reject co-education. They would soon find that it was the boys who were kept home to wash the dishes, and the girls who came to college to learn how to box, make punch, and lie to the Dean. The college, of course, has a college yell, a bell ringer, and a young lady in the Dean's office. What college hasn...
...that their livelihood depends upon legislative acts and not their own ability and prudence. Free traders and protectionists both agree on the desirability of a diversity of industries, but differ in the method of obtaining that diversity. A slow and continuous reduction of duties is the end to be kept in view in order to free the country from the burdens under which an absurd and unjust tariff has placed...
...price of board. The desired standard must be sufficiently high to satisfy the richer and more fastidious, and the price sufficiently low to meet the resources of those in poorer circumstances. Mr. Sullivan has succeeded, in a great measure, in establishing and maintaining this standard, and has thereby kept the Hall well filled...
...present steward has taken great pride in the order list. Having had a long experience at the Grand Union in Saratoga, he is able to equal the best hotel fare in this department. The prices of the extra orders are kept nearly at cost, and the slight profit received from them helps to reduce the price of board. Thus the order system aids in raising the quality of board and in lowering the price...
...highest genius and contemporaries. Handel won immediate recognition, and lived in London, winning the highest honor and respect from the English people, while Bach remained in his obscure German home, but little known outside of it, and soon forgotten even there. Handel's memory and works have been kept alive ever since his death; while Bach's works were almost unknown till revised by Mendelssohn about 1820. Even his own sons and pupils seemed not to appreciate the vastness of his genius and allowed much of his work to be lost. The different careers of the two men are illustrated...