Word: kept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know it doesn't apply to them. It's the kid's turn now. They don't notice that more has changed than just the buildings, that now Harvard is educating a different kind of man to serve a different kind of function. In fact, they haven't really kept up with Harvard...
...Harvard has kept up. Harvard today is more conscious than ever before of the voice of the lower classes: " . . . one third of the nation . . ." It is more appreciative than ever before of the need liberal and enlightened leaders. It is more convinced than ever before that Henry Adams was right when he demanded that both sides of every issue be expressed. It is closer than it has ever been to its ideal of "veritas," for like a true democracy, it puts its trust in the common sense of the individual and offers him every school of thought from which...
...offered four, at 8 American dollars apiece. . . . Since the bottom may drop out of the giant panda boom, the natives have been tipped off to be on the lookout for live specimens of the golden-haired monkey, another animal peculiar to this region which heretofore has never been kept successfully in captivity...
Sure of his destiny, Elisha kept tabs on the fountain-pen business during his exile, will now handle advertising and employe and public relations preparatory to "running things before long in cooperation with my brother." His chief ambition is to restore Waterman to the No. 1 position in the industry now held by Parker Pen Co. He hopes this will not prevent his writing a novel or two on the side. When he writes he scrupulously uses a Waterman...
Witnessing these doings with quiet satisfaction was the general manager's son, Walter Curtin, who kept a diary. "As I look back on the most enjoyable vacation I ever had," he observes, "it was worth all it cost to have such a wonderful year of silence." Last week, Mr. Curtin, now an Oakland, Calif, businessman, published his diary in a 299-page book which made good reading for its picture of gold-rush days, but which sounded like something by Ring Lardner in its grave, adolescent comments on the turbulent life aboard the Yukoner. Fights and uproar left young...