Word: kept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school training are so entrenched and pernicious that it is incredible that no one has been forward enough to do something about them. Seeing the heart of the problem, John Jay Chapman wrote in 1924: "College loyalty is the only religion the schoolboy knows. . . . And this religious idea is kept alive in him by the vision of the ultimate college examinations--the Clashing Rocks through which he must pass to save his soul alive. . . . Thus an enormous moral pressure is put on him to make him do an intelligent thing--and this on an urchin who has never been taught...
...after Yale (1915), made really good in Wall Street as a leading partner of C. D. Barney & Co. He cashed in on marketing Winston-Salem's R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel) stock. Relatively, he survived the 1929 crash better than most Wall Streeters. He kept in touch with North Carolina politics and his old friend Democrat Max Gardner (Governor...
...condemned, diabetic Philip Chaleff, was with difficulty being kept alive for the chair by injections of insulin...
...nothing of the lavish display put on in Rome for Adolf Hitler's visits. Total cost of Mr. Chamberlain's three-day entertainment was only $5,000. But the Italian people, many of whom believe that it was the British statesman and not II Duce who kept them out of a war in September, gave Mr. Chamberlain a warm welcome. Vivas were chalked on doorsteps and wherever Mr. Chamberlain went he was greeted with genuine hand claps. Rome's supply of umbrellas was bought...
Ever since, Dr. Cutten has kept busy shocking U. S. humanitarians by calling social security "degrading," denouncing "parasitic paupers," modern medicine and modern philanthropy. Reviewing his utterances, the New York World-Telegram once concluded that "Dr. Cutten wanted a dictator...