Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swimming pool at Miami Beach, Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmel, kept alive by tea, oranges, boullion, sandwiches, omelets and coffee, swam for 32 hours, breaking by an hour a world's record that had stood for 47 years...
...Oklahoma oil pool and came out with $100,000. Soon he was a millionaire producer with properties dotted all through the midwest, from southern Kansas to northern Texas. He would spot a place, buy or lease it, develop it, sell out and look for another place. He kept control of richest wells...
...powerful parliamentary debater. He has earned his reward, especially of late, by tirelessly conducting the defense of the Cabinet before the House of Commons on a multiplicity of bills and issues which must have kept him slaving over the preparation of his speeches through many a night. Withal, rubicund Sir Douglas Hogg, who greatly resembles Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, has kept his cheeks pink, his temper cool, his jokes fresh, his judgment sound...
Observers recalled that the great Soviet organizer, Michael Borodin, a leading instigator of the China Nationalist Revolution (TIME, Dec. 13, 1926) is now periodically reported to be active in Mongolia. Once he and his squat, Buddha-like wife kept a cheap secretarial school in Chicago...
...record of chapel attendance has been kept, and shows a Sunday attendance averaging 219 students compared with 217 for last year. The public attendance has averaged 318, making a total Sunday average of 537. The average attendance at the daily services has dropped to 64, from an average of 75 last year, but it is interesting to note that most of the decrease has come in the four weeks of the Reading Period and Examination Period when academic pressure has driven the students across the quadrangle to the Library instead. In estimating religious tendencies at Harvard it must, however...