Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...congress of this kind necessarily demands minute preparedness to keep the delegates busy and also entertained. Such things as had to be kept in mind are as follows: propaganda, in the aims of which over ten thousand advertisement posters and an equal number of placards were printed and sent off to students' unions and foreign authorities, the hiring and decorating of hotels, auditoriums, etc., excursions planned, and preparing for the general welfare of the delegates...
Booklets containing a resume of Harvard traditions and several special articles on the history of the college will be published and ready for sale on the day of Commencement Exercises, June 21, it was announced last night. The booklets will be kept in stock for purchasers at the Crimson Building on Plympton Street and at the Harvard Cooperative store. The cost will be $.50 per copy...
...which produced more congratulatory editorials than Mr. Farley's fierce but successful fight to attain the leadership of his district, could be attributed largely to the admirable Linder. Jealous Republicans, who can give no such parties in Manhattan, scoffingly suggested that the fat boy would have been kept away from the party for fear of frightening the other guests, had it not been for the fact that Mr. Farley, himself a 6-ft. package weighing 190 pounds, likes to see much made much...
...Each of the first-class sleepers is provided with a samovar kept going all the time, so that one can always get a glass of hot tea, day or night...
...gentleman's straw hat blew into the water, upsetting a sailboat. Yachts kept running into each other headon. In one race a blue sloop in front of all the rest had a collision with a swan and was forced off the course while hundreds of people watched the others, ship models, big in their grace, sweep on, racing in a regatta held by the Bureau of Recreation on a lake in Central Park, Manhattan. A deaf mute, one Raphael Freedman, won first prize with a boat made of aluminum...