Word: kept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beaten about and generally abused by most of her football playmates up until the very recent past, has a fairly capable team this year. This became evident shortly after Saturday's game started, as Rip Engle's able young men immediately put the Harvards in an unenviable position and kept the upper hand for the rest of the afternoon. They ultimately...
...reporter for the Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. A U.S. Army Air Force pilot during the war, he spent three years as a member of a guerrilla army in the Philippines. As deputy chief of one of the commands, he had 28,000 men under him. He kept up his music by playing the pianos he found occasionally in Filipino homes, and by learning to play the native agong (a cross between a cymbal and a drum). He has taken up piano and composition again and is currently working on a string quartet...
What shocked Britons most was a statement from the accountants-Cooper Brothers & Co.-that they were "unable to report that in our opinion proper books of accounts have been kept by the corporation." But Sir Leslie Arthur ("Dick") Plummer, the corporation's chairman and Labor's vice president in charge of groundnuts, also had some excuse for this. In the first year (1947-48), the scheme had been run by a subsidiary of the empire-wide business colossus, Unilever. Plummer claimed that when his corporation took over a year ago, the books were already in chaos. This...
...drugs were anti-histaminics, developed in the last few years for relief of allergies (notably hay fever and asthma). Because they set off such side effects as drowsiness and dizziness in some patients, the Food & Drug Administration had kept them on the prescription list. Doctors, noting that many cold symptoms seem to be allergic in nature, have tried the anti-histaminics on cold sufferers, but the varied results left them far from enthusiastic...
...freshman soccer team kept the ball "on the carpet"--as Coach Poley Guyda would say--for the first time this season yesterday as it shut out the Brown '53 squad, 2 to 0, on the Business School Field...