Word: kept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Holyoke street; Mill street, which runs between Lowell House and Gore Hall; and South street, which intersects Dunster street north of Kirkland House, must be kept clear for fire trucks, University officials insist...
...first of what the radio business believes will be a series of big-show visitations from the Hollywood studios during World's Fair time, Edgar Bergen made his will. In it he remembered Charlie, leaving $10,000 to the National Society of Ventriloquists so that Charlie might be kept in repair and used to encourage the perpetuation...
Scripps took the State Tribune into his chain, adopted Magee's motto, "Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way," made a lighthouse Scripps-Howard's emblem. Carl Magee, who was kept in charge, typified the crusading Scripps editor of the 19203, when the Scripps newspapers from coast to coast were dedicated to cleaning up corruption. Then one day Magee was knocked down and booted about a hotel lobby by a judge whom he had accused of corruption. Magee drew a revolver, boggled his aim, killed a boy who was trying to help...
...Theodoric, Bishop of Cervia, Italy, an unsung surgical hero of the Middle Ages, insisted that infection and formation of pus, contrary to popular medical opinion, was not necessary for successful healing of a wound. He insisted that wounds be kept clean and dry. So fellow practitioners-who continued for hundreds of years the practice of searing wounds with boiling oil, covering them with such things as bacon, earthworms, rabbit fur, oil of lilies and a boiled concoction of young whelps "just pupp'd"-denounced him as a heretic. Theodoric, says Dr. Graham, was "as great an original thinker...
...month for the Waterman Steamship Corp. Shrewd, well-liked, he rose rapidly to traffic manager, then to vice president. But he was not happy in his job, and meanwhile he had been making a reputation in little magazines as a talented short-story writer. This fact, however, he kept a close secret from his business associates. His stories were published under the pseudonym of William March. His literary output and reputation, though not his literary earnings, increased rapidly. In 1933 appeared a War novel, Company K; in 1936 his powerful novel of Georgia mill hands, The Tallons...