Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home with an automatic shotgun, informed the mob that he would shoot dead the first man who stepped on his porch. "You scoundrels, get out of here and go to hell," said Editor Dean. They went to the plant of the Daily Herald; but the employees of Editor Dean kept them away from the presses with loaded revolvers. They hung crepe on the door of the Daily Herald's offices, then sheepishly went home to sleep...
...society, the privileges of kings and upper classes, and so forth. But during the nineteenth century, in the Occident, the prestige of theology waned, while that of science increased. So now all the old prejudices are being refitted with imitation "scientific" bases. Some of them can still be kept up, although they are dangerously wabbly. Some are rather in the nature of museum exhibits...
Coach E. J. Brown '96 has kept C. McK. Norton '29 in Mason's place in the first shell since the Tech-Cornell race last Saturday and it is probable that Norton will be in the boat at starting time this week end. D. S. Greer '29 has taken over Norton's post on the Junior University crew...
Under Mr. Lane's leadership the library has prospered. From a mere 200,000 volumes it has grown to become one of the world's finest and largest libraries with a collection of some two and a half million books. It has been kept up-to-date, and its accessibility has grown with its size under the capable supervision of Mr. Lane. From the original Gore Hall the library has moved to the magnificence of Widener with its never-ending stacks, and Mr. Lane managed the intricate process of moving it without once letting the change interfere with the routine...
...safely embarked on a ship paradoxically sailing round the world to Europe, like a wolf Aimee Semple McPherson descended upon the unsuspecting fold. The assistant shepherds closed the gates as well as they could, but they left some holes under the fence, and the wolf was not to be kept out. The devil in the shape of Mr. Voliva's doctrines had to be driven from the sheep before it led them hopelessly astray...