Word: kept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Center halfbacks on both teams were the stars. For Harvard, Rick Drake hustled and passed will, while for Brown, Michael (who scored the penalty kick) kept Crimson goalie Batchelder busy all afternoon with shots that might have been goals...
...Boston, the mayoralty campaign, fought merely on the question of whether the incumbent mayor, James Michael Curley, should be kept in office, finished with an exchange of mud slinging...
When the Taft-Hartley Act banned the closed shop from union contracts, the International Typographical Union figured out a simple dodge. The printers refused to renew their contracts, but insisted that publishers agree instead to informal "conditions of employment" which actually kept the closed shop in operation. Many newspapers agreed; the Chicago publishers refused, and the I.T.U. struck. To test the legality of the printers' policy, the American Newspaper Publishers Association and the Chicago Newspaper Publishers Association filed separate suits against the I.T.U. before the National Labor Relations Board. Last week, six weeks after the Chicago publishers...
Like a man walking on the ceiling, the stock market last week continued to delight and mystify onlookers. In nose-thumbing defiance of all the gloom over strikes (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the market blithely kept on rising, for the fourth week in a row. With a 4.1 point gain during the week, the Dow-Jones industrial average broke through the high mark (190.19) of a year ago, when Wall Street confidently expected a Republican victory, and reached...
...career, Mrs. Murphy says that she leads a normal married home life with her husband, Jack J. Murphy (also in the textile business), and a 22-year-old daughter by her first marriage. Says she: "Successful women aren't so unusual that they Harvard." have to be kept in a bottle at Harvard...