Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University soccer team kept its slate clean by overcoming Northeastern, winner of a string of 15 straight games, by the score of 5 to 1, yesterday afternoon behind the Business School. The Harvard team clearly outclassed its opponents, and after the first few minutes, the result was never in doubt...
...tussle with the Seconds was only of an informal nature and no record of the score was kept, but the men were driven hard every minute of the lengthy scrimmage. This was probably the only contact work which the men will get this week. A demonstration of Florida plays is on the program...
...trees. Hans Nagel, keeper of the Houston Zoo, was elected executioner. He approached to close range, raised a big-game rifle, fired. Black Diamond howled, tried to jerk away. Nagel fired again, could not penetrate the elephant's skull.* While the monster wildly trumpeted and twisted, Nagel kept on firing, exhausted all his ammunition. He asked for more but it was not until 60 shots had crashed into Black Diamond that he sagged and toppled. Circus performers at the execution wept as Black Diamond fell. Afterward, Executioner Nagel ran to his home, went to bed, whitefaced...
...During the rush season of the year, which lasts from about a week before the first registration day to a time some days after the publication of the University Directory, two telephone lines are kept busy from the minute we open in the morning until long after five o'clock, the regular closing time...
...early part of the year is the readdressing of mail sent just to the University. Why, as many as 1000, 1500, or even 2000 letters come in each day, and usually half of these are invitations to the students! Sometimes a staff of several men has been kept working as late as 10 o'clock in the evening readdressing letters; and so great is the desire of the public for information that whenever there is a light burning in the evening from the window of our office, people rap at it in the vain hope that maybe we swill satisfy...