Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game started at a slow pace, the first quarter being marked by numerous fouls and rough play. Unaccustomed to passing on a large floor, the Harvard team was balked at every play by the Milton five, which kept the Crimson on the defensive from the start...
Cause we've never kept them waiting very long...
Although as announced beforehand the Vagabond himself kept strict hibernation throughout the reading period and the ensuing examinations, a disciple has arisen to confound the teacher. Not content with a mere passive exposure to lectures, this King of Vagabonds took the examination given in a course allied to his field though he was neither known to the instructor nor enrolled with the absentee members attending at the meetings of the course immediately before and after holidays last fall...
...Havemeyer died. To the Metropolitan Museum (which now lacks the space properly to exhibit the works) were bequeathed all objects in the collection except Persian potteries which were given to her son, Horace Have meyer. It was stipulated that the collection be kept otherwise intact, dedicated to the memory of her late husband. The gift was a final gesture, concluding a series of anonymous flourishes. Frequently in the past Mrs. Havemeyer gave or loaned pieces from her collections, always, how ever, with the stipulation that her name be not mentioned...
...Lansing was Governor Fred Warren Green, able Republican lawyer, who liked to busy himself with education. The governor wanted more uni versity control vested in his Republican legislature. This was one thing the young President could not stand. Between them grew an inevitable personal dislike. One time Governor Green kept President Little waiting one hour in an anteroom of the State Capitol. President Little had requested an interview about a proposed tax survey. Finally Dr. Little returned to Ann Arbor sans interview. It was then freely rumored that Governor Green might remove certain Regents, replace them with anti-Little...