Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning, geraniums to cut by the garden gate-and wait in vain for the hero. From an upper window she watched for him, a middle-aged neighbor. The sharp ledge cut into her arms, the heavy scent of summer flowers filled her with longing, but her neighbor kept to himself. Adrienne tossed sleeplessly at night, traced listlessly the immutable pattern of her dull existence, suffered torments from her suspicious parent...
...strongest competition for second place will probably be encountered from the University of Southern California, with Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and Cornell also counting heavily in the scoring. The injury of Charles Borah on May 5, which kept him out of strenuous training for ten days, has opened possibilities in the dash events which may considerably affect the total of the Southern California team. Such men as A. E. French '29, and T. F. Mason '30, who both did 9 and 4-5 seconds in the 100 last Saturday, will give Borah trouble in the century unless...
Recent overtures from the League have caused Spain to withdraw her threat to withdraw (TIME, April 2). The fact that Brazil's latest note was kept secret by the League for a whole month suggests how many last minute efforts have been made to get Brazil to reconsider...
...week this little man, Jose Jurado, had kept his .obliging manners, his smiles, efficiency, and unconcern. He had led the qualifiers for the British Open Golf Championship. Now, playing his last round, he was doing his best to upset the English notion that no member of a Latin race could stand the strain of tournament golf...
...said John Davison Rockefeller, at the age of 60, when he was fingering the yellowed leaves of a precious document, his own Ledger A, which he had kept as a 16-year-old assistant bookkeeper in a Cleveland commission house. That all-inclusive creed, conceived in youth, ex- pressed at the philosopher's age, was the lone recorded feat of Mr. Rockefeller's imagination. Otherwise, he has exhibited no great creative imagination. But give even a street car conductor a mighty creed, give him an almost perfect mathematical determination to carry it out, and he will build tracks...