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Word: kept (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Everyone either works or is kept by someone else!" snapped Lady Rhondda in a statement to reporters. "It is strange that Mr. Thomas, a Socialist, should be advocating idleness for any section of the community. It is ridiculous to say that it is against the interests of the nation for women to work. ... Is it fair to expect a father to support a family of grown up daughters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...little man in blue kept briskly on with his pretense of working, kept mum. When he won in the referendum by only two-tenths of 1%, he knew he would lose in the Reichstag last week. A shrewd loser's mouth stays shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Little Man Blue | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

After this, Grasson gave a talk for about ten minutes or so in which he kept the audience laughing, and in which he stressed the point that fencing was not a difficult sport to learn, but that the great need was for Americanized coaches who can understand their men thoroughly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWORDSMEN STAGE GALA PERFORMANCE IN HEMENWAY BOUTS | 12/7/1929 | See Source »

...House, the executive committee of the Council plans to redecorate the room and establish headquarters there for foreign students. The rearrangement of the room will be made with a view to embodying all the qualities of a club: Periodicals and books from most of the foreign nations will be kept on the shelves, and tea will be served on certain afternoons. While taking this step in realizing a headquarters for the social life of the foreign students and their friends, the committee announced that it is an experiment relative to the possible future establishment of an International House at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS HERE | 12/6/1929 | See Source »

...effective play such as has rarely been seen, and Murphy and Dixon proved themselves one of the best pair of ends in the whole country. The former looked like all-American timber with his bruising tackling and omnipresence, while it was only the mighty kicks of the latter that kept the Worcester boys at bay so successfully. They are a couple of players whom any coach could use. Holy Cross too had some fine men on the field, notably O'Connell, the Sophomore back who ran eighty-odd yards from a kick-off here in the Stadium a week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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