Word: kept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour-long, five-part test was developed by Carroll and Professor Stanley M. Sapon, now at Ohio State University, principally under Carnegie Corporation grants. Existing tests, Carroll declared, are not doing a sufficiently good job of predicting language success and have not kept pace with changes in the teaching of languages...
...about fluordidation of the city's water supply, has been muffled because of the obvious emotional tinges such an argument would bring into the campaign. An active fluoridation wrangle would become an unsettling factor for all candidates; all else, even personality, might become subordinate. Hence, the issue has been kept reasonably quiet...
...Pound's firm belief that one should never be idle. "I've kept busy all my he said. "I might find it hard to find something to occupy myself if I weren't busy at law. I've always had something...
...kept telling them I was building." shrugs Clark, winner of a battlefield commission in Europe during World War II and captain of U.S.C.'s 1947 team. "What else could I say?" Clark was true to his word. He went as far away as the famed muscle factories of Pennsylvania to land Tackle Dan Ficca (6 ft. 1 in., 230 lbs.). But Clark's prize finds were waiting at Mount Carmel High School, right in Southern Cal's own home town of Los Angeles. As high-school All-Americas, Mike and Marlin McKeever got offers from some...
Though he is one of the world's richest men (reputed worth: $1 billion), Jean Paul Getty, 66, lives like a man who does not know where his next penury is coming from. For years he kept a diary in which he jotted down every $2.70 dinner check, including "35? for ice cream." He has homes in California and Italy, but rarely uses them, prefers instead to run his vast Middle Eastern oil interests (TIME cover, Feb. 24, 1958) from the cheapest two-room suites in Paris' George V and London's Ritz Hotel...