Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unlike Banker Rand, Mr. Stauffen did not learn his banking behind cages and over ledgers. Graduated from Columbia in 1904, he practiced law, then became vice president in charge of finance of Lord & Taylor, Manhattan merchants. In 1915 he was made a vice president of the Liberty National Bank, kept the position when this institution was merged with The New York Trust Co., of which he is now senior vice president. Over six feet, well dressed, he likes ranches, golf, tennis, romping with younger financiers, toying with cigars...
...artisans, and the adventurers do not. They are a small minority, but they are a very important minority. I appeal for them because it is more important to our civilization that one potential artist like Shelley, one scholar like Gibbon, one artisan like Edison, one adventurer like Lindbergh, be kept out of college than that a thousand more incipient junior executives, Ph.D. candidates, and museum curators...
...demands for seats at the coming World's Series and of a very gratifying gate at a fight between contenders of far from championship calibre. Ordinary business policy should warn them of the risk of antagonizing numbers of potential fans vastly greater than the relatively few who might be kept away from any one event by the possibility of hearing it on the radio, and if they are driven to such desperate resorts to bolster up their attendance it can only be because the more usual means have failed...
...candidates were sent in to the showers after a half hour's workout Coach Horween had his University squad members strip off their heavy uniforms and run through a session that lasted from 2.30 until 5 o'clock. The linemen all discarded their jerseys while the backs and ends kept on nothing but their running trunks and track shirts...
...work was easy but the men were kept at it consistently throughout the whole afternoon. A great deal of time was devoted to individual instruction after which Horween and Casey took the backs and ends and formed a skeleton team and the linemen were taken over by Coaches Dunne and Hubbard. A blackboard talk on line play followed for the linemen after which they worked out on the machines...