Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statesmen know, the League of Nations covenant already embodies the munitions embargo idea. So-called "irrec-oncilables," who kept the U. S. out of the League, last week stirred uneasily when they read the Capper resolution. Why, they asked, should a great U. S. industry be stifled just to pacify the quarrels of other nations...
Correspondents (catching a glimpse of Owen D. Young in the chairman's place): "They've elected Young!" (Correspondents rush out to file cablegrams. On their return a handout is issued, stating that all the delegates made brief perfunctory speeches, and announcing that no minutes of the proceedings were kept. Curtain...
...fortnight ago Elinor Smith flew over Long Island for 13 hr., 16 min., 45 sec. and sang songs at the moon. Thereby she beat Bobby Trout's woman's endurance record. Last week Miss Trout kept her plane over Los Angeles for 16 hr., 52 min. and became champion. She ate oranges the while...
...Hollister '29 kept his record clean with wins in all three of his events...
...audience on subjects of extra-collegiate significance. Time was, a century or more ago, when college presidents were active members of the teaching faculty, giving courses and advising students on a field of study like any professor. Of late, the growing complexity of university organization and administrative details has kept the college heads away from the speaker's platform, except for those occasions met in performance of duty...