Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the possibility of the Business Manager's committing suicide, funds were forwarded, and at a late hour last night the wires were still humming as the CRIMSON kept faith with its public and arranged for the immediate importing of Dr. Huey to Cambridge...
...count of scores was kept in yesterday's grind. The various plays in the Crimson repertoire were run off and Coach Horween called the ball back regularly in order to analyze the carrying out of assignments and to give individual instruction. A thorough drill on offensive and defensive tactics was undertaken, the major emphasis being placed on the former. The Harvard mentor gave out two new plays which were tested in skeleton drill and then under actual fire...
Other directors and officers will be drawn from the banks acquired and from the firms sponsoring the corporation. Approximately $500,000,000 of the stock will be kept to provide for national expansion. Announcing the plans the organizers said: "For several years the opinion of bankers through the country has been becoming more and more favorable to the principle of group banking. . . . [It] is common in Great Britain, Canada and continental Europe ... is peculiarly adapted to American conditions as it offers the advantage of maintaining a large degree of local independence and local contacts through the maintenance of the individuality...
...Hackensack, N. J., one Willie Schaeffer, who calls himself "the strongest man," held two airplanes on ropes, one in each hand, and kept them down though they were roaring to get up. ¶ In Wiesbaden, Dr. Alexander Alekhine won his fourth straight game from E. D. Bogoljubow, needs only two games out of the required series of 30 to keep the world chess championship. Said he: "Even the most confirmed opponent of the contention that the game is threatened with death through draws, could not have hoped for such a development." Play will be continued next week at Heidelberg...
...your real strength. If he has two quick tricks, he is given the choice of bidding either a no-trump or his best suit. (If that suit be diamonds, he must bid two diamonds.) Obviously, the advantage of the Vanderbilt bid lies in the fact that the bidding is kept open and the strong three-trick hand is allowed to bid again after learning the strength of its partner...