Word: kept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realism frankly admits that the mass of humanity cannot be decorated much, and in meeting the problem of unemployable youth he would at least make them skillful drones during the incubation period. "Now, and not at some indefinite time to come, education should be integrated with life and kept integrated for all time to come," Dr. Prosser stated. But it is a matter of taste and not of logic whether or not one accepts his leveling integration and decides that vocational training is better than traditional discipline. The superior student would suffer; the average student might benefit...
Edward Engel is fast and thorough, likes to pace nervously while talking. He has no hobbies, no pretensions. The switchboard girls love him because he dials his own numbers, speaks at once to anyone who calls. Says he: "I hate to be kept waiting, so why should I keep anyone waiting...
Last week she kept her promise. Pale Horse, Pale Rider is a collection of three short novels which belong with the best of contemporary U. S. writing in this difficult form. A distinctive book, elusive as quicksilver, it has the subtlety that has marked all Miss Porter's writing, none of the preciousness that has previously marred it. Old Mortality tells of the legend-haunted girlhood and runaway marriage of Miranda, a skinny, freckle-nosed Southern girl who is such a relief after traditional Southern belles that she is almost an achievement in herself. Noon Wine is a deceptively...
...Blue Devlis were all not to have a busman's holiday at the expense of any fastball pitching Harvard could offer, but John's "nothing ball" and a loose game kept the tourists on a par with Duke until the seventh, when the potent opposition pounded out three runs to clinch the slugfest...
...welcome an opportunity to test the prowess of the numerous pretenders to his crown who have sprung up since his epic feat on March 26. "I really doubt whether all of them have been following the rules of the IGGA (Intercollegiate Goldfish Gulping Association)," Clark said. The record has kept on soaring sky-high, as many a lad has made his fame and fortune. At present Joseph Deliberate is accredited (unofficially) with bringing the title to Clark University by downing $9, eclipsing Gordon Southworth's 67 for Middlesex College...