Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known; a variety of empirical methods were tried and later discarded, and the decennial debates in the House were often bitter. On one occasion, after a long speech by Daniel Webster, the Senate reversed the action of the House on purely mathematical grounds. If the House is to be kept at its present size of 435 members, any gain for one state will necessarily mean a loss for some other state, so that the need for a sound and fair method of apportionment is an urgent one. Cases can occur in which the use of a wrong method would affect...
...They say that Poincare told Chiappe to raid the peep shows because the Government thought they were giving Paris a bad name. Most of them were run by Algerians or Levantines or Greeks. Of course Chiappe hasn't interfered with the regular, licensed-maisons kept and patronized by the French themselves. He has been out after the tourist show places...
...three tears Critic Evans shed were crocodile tears. After all he had kept his job, nay, got a better one. Many of the funnymen who have been engaged the last few years in making Life comical were looking for new markets for their quips and quiddities. Among them was Robert Sherwood himself, who, in addition to reviewing the movies, had been editor of the magazine for four years, associate editor for four years before that...
...scoreless tie on the Boston Garden ice last night. The Harvard hockey forces, though outplayed for the most part, succeeded in halting many of the fierce rushes of their New Year's eve conquerors by timely poke-checking, while the steady work of O. P. Jackson '29 kept the Crimson cage inviolate...
...reception intensities was begun at the private laboratory of Mr. G. W. Pickard in Newton Centre. Last year a duplicate outfit was then installed at the Astronomical Laboratory in Cambridge and the measurements carried on there under the direction of Professor Stetson. For a few weeks simultaneous records were kept in the two places until a satisfactory reduction factor was obtained whereby the two series of data could be rendered comparable...