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Word: kept (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seat but she looked straight ahead. "Your ticket, madam," he said. She replied, "I have no ticket." He asked, "Your pass, then?" She looked him in the eyes as she held up the stump of an arm and answered, "This is my pass." The conductor took another look and kept on going. It was Jesse James's mother. It was the same conductor and the train that had brought the Pinkertons who dynamited the James house and blew Mrs. James's hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...back in a Bradford frame, leg being stretched by ropes and pulleys and weights, said leg being held immobile by a yard-long sandbag on either side, an alert physician and a bevy of nurses standing by like eagle-eyed engineers, he will learn that one may be kept from "tossing about in the throes of sleep" until he may hatch out a whole dozen eggs "scrambling" nary a one, and no "marvel" at all. "This astonishing muscular control" will be completely and expertly accomplished by said means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Both contenders were in their best form and used every hold in their wrestling vocabulary. Harkness showed that quick deftness which caused the critics to name him the third best wrestler in the country last year. He kept Boston running with a series of well executed switches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston, Harkness Give Exhibition Wrestling Match | 3/15/1939 | See Source »

Down went the stars of Executives White and Bitner, up went the star of Joe Connolly. Tom White kept his title but lost his authority, Harry Bitner lost both. Cherubic Joe Connolly became general manager of all Hearst newspapers, responsible directly to Judge Shearn. Photographed looking up at tall Joe Connolly at a Gridiron Club dinner (see cut, p. 49) stubby Clarence Shearn cracked: "That's just the way it is. I'm looking up and saying: 'Save us, Joe, save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dusk at Santa Monica | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Mike Rice and Ed Buckley paced the scoring efforts of the Crimson Freshmen. Buckley, who had been elected captain shortly before the game, filled the air with his long shots from all over the floor. Rice, high Crimson scorer, kept the Yardlings in the lead with his aggressive play and his many fast breaks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Five Takes Close Contest Against Eli Hoopsters by 51-41 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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