Word: kept
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...hatching, but I am skeptical of the click's effectiveness in communicating the time of emergence. The latter is based entirely on the period of incubation, which is never begun by a smart hen of any of the gallinaceous birds until the entire clutch is laid. Grandmother kept fertile eggs gathered from the poultry yard in a cupboard until she had enough for a "setting," which may have required several days. Then a "broody" hen was allowed to "set" on the clutch. After 21 days, all the eggs hatched within a half-hour of each other. Clicks...
...Hotel, while dress designers laden with garment bags swished in past lines of cold-eyed Secret Service men. No word of what Luci chose in the way of a gown was permitted to leak out to the expectant reporters in the lobby, and Lady Bird was triumphant at having kept them in the dark. "We did it," she exulted when it was all over. "Imagine, three days in New York and nobody knows our secrets...
...House would also present the Administration with a number of options to ease present crowding in the Houses. It could abandon Claverly Hall as a dormitory, and simultaneously deconvert a small number of suites in the Houses. Or, if it kept the 120 spaces in Claverly, it could deconvert a far larger number of House suites. No firm decisions have been made, but officials seem to be leaning towards retaining Claverly. "A lot of boys like rooms in Claverly," Dean Monro noted last week...
...Angeles County deputy sheriffs last week went up in the air to fight crime on the ground. Cruising 20 hours a day in helicopters above the city of Lakewood (pop. 67,000), near Long Beach, the officers kept a particular watch for an ingenious new type of alarm beacon mounted atop homes and stores. The 1,000-watt beacons, visible five miles in daylight and twelve at night, light up either manually or automatically to signal break-ins or holdups. Within 21 minutes at most, the sheriff's men expect to swoop down on the scene, spot suspects with...
...parents were teachers (her father later became moderately well known as Critic Wilson Follett) who, at the time of Barbara's birth (1914), decided that their little girl was much too sensitive and gifted to run with the herd of ordinary children that attended public school. So they kept her at home, where they could be sure she received only the finest instruction: their...