Word: kept
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...well turn out to be the world's greatest expert on it. If you can accept all this, and see it not merely as something which is "cute" (an expression, incidentally, which the English hate), but as a vital part of a process whereby the past and present are kept in equilibrium, you will be a long way to getting the most out of English university education. Yes, the English do take their academic work seriously--but it's not "the done thing" to broadcast the fact...
Poland has been earnestly Catholic for more than 1,000 years, Rome's eastern bulwark against Mongols, Turks and Orthodox Russia. When Prussia, Russia and Austria carved Poland out of existence in three 18th century partitions, the nation's language and culture were kept alive within the spiritual fortress of the Roman Catholic Church until an independent Poland was re-created after World...
...Harvard is now 2-8-1, 1-3 in the lvies), the offense showed some sparks in producing 14 shots on goal. Only a few blown shots at the Tiger goalmouth kept the Crimson scoreless...
Almost incredibly, the two squads kept the Princeton crowd of 17,500 on the edge of their seats for the remaining 28 seconds as first Harvard, then Princeton intercepted passes...
...Morgan, who at Harvard was already every bit the stormy and ruthless baron who glares from the pages of history books. Refused membership in the Fly Club, an insulted Morgan decided to build his own final club, the Delphic. For years it was called "the Gas" because its steward kept the gas lights burning all night, making the club appear as a social beehive to passing outsiders. Unquestionably, by tradition and present practice, final clubs constitute an economic and social elite of a sort...