Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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National figures were few in the closing days of the Democratic campaign. John William Davis kept at it over the radio. James Middleton Cox strove along the Border. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, famed baseballer, repeatedly told Midwesterners to disregard the Wall Street odds. "Don't forget Wall Street bet 3 to 1 against the Yankees in the World Series. Wall Street will be wrong again...
...examined innumerable others. He jailed & fined two police captains and three district detectives on charges of extortion, bribery, conspiracy. He kept on gunning for culprits...
...Spain and the President of France (TIME, July 23). Unfortunately relations between France and Italy are just now so tense that at the last minute it was considered wiser to omit the gesture of a nation-to-nation handclasp across the frontier. Therefore M. Le President and Il Duce kept their too potent palms out of contact, last week, but sent their Ministers of Public Works to shake just an ordinary shake...
...Doctors kept this year's infantile paralysis incidence low because they have recognized the early signs of the disease and used serums to prevent the paralysis. Best serum comes from convalescents. It is difficult to get, and scarce. Massachusetts, where the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission had three doctors traveling around the state to inject the serum into spines, seems to have done the best preventive work this year...
...worked his way through the local medical school. Both brothers loved elfin yet extremely modern Edie-Harold blithely, Jonathan desperately. Came the War with a smart uniform for Harold, a curt injunction that Jonathan continue as invaluable village doctor. His constant helpmeet was Rachel, dark-eyed beauty, but he kept reminding himself that calm brunettes were not his type -too unlike Edie. These contemplations were rudely interrupted by Harold reported killed and Edie marrying disillusioned "brother Jonathan," that she might honorably bear Harold's child. Harold's unexpected reappearance so confuses the situation that nothing is left...