Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the past summer when constant rains made the homes of our nursery group very damp, and many children who did not receive our care suffered from catarrhal colds, our children kept perfectly well...
Tabulating similarly the "Principal Customers of France," Mr. Cahill shows that Great Britain bought most in 1913 and still does; while the U.S. buys so little from France today as to stand in sixth place. This is but another way of saying that French goods are kept out of the U.S. by a tariff wall, and let into England by the fact that the Empire is not shielded as Lord Melchett would like to see it shielded...
Even pretty women have been cautioned by Roman policemen, during the past two years, whenever they have "kept to the right" in walking alo.ng the Corso Umberto, famed shopping thoroughfare...
...pedestrians should have "kept to the left," by command of Prime Minister Benito Mussolini; but until last week the order was never enforced. A young or pretty transgressor would experience no more than a gallant pressure upon the arm from a policeman who murmured mellifluently, "Sinistra, Signora." Usually the pressure and the suggestion were ignored by willful females, stubborn males-until last week...
After 1900, Harvard and Yale met in annual games, and from the start of the series the Crimson maintained the superiority in the ice game that has kept Yale in submission since that date. Twenty-one of the annual series has been crowned by Harvard victories, and only six have gone the way of New Haven. Yale won the first game, in 1900, and took two out of three two years later after Harvard had scored a 4-0 shootout in the only game played in 1901. Through 1907 there was an unbroken run of Harvard victories...