Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blackmail. Two Bostonian District Attorneys and a Federal District Attorney's assistant put the "age-old badger game on a big business basis." It cost disporting cinema tycoons $105,000 to hush up one party; $120,000 preserved the reputation of a famed tenor; $380,000 kept a New England railroad president's name unsullied...
...overcome, but the author and her friend are signed as midshipmaids, and depart, aboard a ship with a cannibal cook and a crew of old-time sailors. The journey takes about two months; the body of the book is made up of the ship's log, which was kept by Miss Cooper...
...vice-hunt, with their Index Expurgatorius in one hand and sufficient funds in the other to provide them with the latest and freshest in potentially risque literature. The two-kinds-of-falsehood idea should furnish an analogy for a two-purposes-in-reading theory, by which what must be kept with holy zeal from the unconcenrated eyes of ordinary mortals can be read with propriety, and of course without danger to their purity of soul, by these unofficial collagues of Boston's Finest...
After this barrage of shots B. U. settled down and kept her own net free from danger until near the close of the period. Then, with less than a minute left to play Cunningham took the puck single-handed through the entire Terrier defence and sent a sizzling shot past the goalie from the left side of the net just as the period ended...
...most illuminating conclusion to be drawn from the report of the I. C. A. A. A. A. on the mortality of Harvard athletes resulting from their years of organized sports during the period 1870 to 1905 is the curious parallelism with which intelligent supervision of University athletics has kept pace with the decreasing death rate. While Harvard, compared with other colleges, has an extremely high mortality for the thirty-five years during which statistics were available, the important point is the rapidity with which it has been lowered with the passing of each decade. Twenty years before the turn...