Word: kept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morgan & Co.'s trouble-shooter for the slipping Gillette Safety Razor Co. His bet was that he would lift the earnings to $5 per share, or take no pay. If he succeeded, he would get 20,000 Gillette shares, and 20,000 more if earnings reached $6. Depression kept him from lifting earnings above $1.98 after four years of trying, but the new one-piece Gillette which opens up like a clamshell is basically his invention. This spring, just to see if he could do it, he wrote a mystery story, Murder in Newport, which Scribner's accepted...
...year apartment at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel; Florida, where his Star Island mansion at Miami Beach cost a small fortune; Massachusetts, where in 1921 he built a house requiring 30 servants; or Texas, where he spent most of his time between 1893 and 1910 but kept only a $5-a-month room at Terrell in later years...
...nucleus of the Plan E organization will probably be kept if the recount fails to change the verdict, and the charter will undoubtedly be brought before the electorate...
...Cambridge has become industrialized, whole generations have grown up, surrounded, bewildered, flaunted by the organization that is Harvard. They have been ignorant of the Oversoul and too busy to visit the Medical School; Harvard has offered them little and their children nothing. Yet these thousands of underprivileged youngsters have kept up with the one phase of Harvard has offered them little and their children nothing. Yet these thousand of underprivileged youngsters have kept up with the one phase of Harvard they understand, and although they can never attend the College and are chased away from Soldiers Field, they have been...
...interest is in seeing whether they get up." It they don't, or if Green signals, he rushes out as quickly as possible. "I tear out," he says simply. He wears the large black coat principally because it has huge pockets in which lots of adhesive tape may be kept. Keeping things from falling out of the pockets makes him run so stiffly. The player injured will usually have a contusion, abrasion, laceration, sprain, strain, or sometimes a fracture or dislocation...