Word: kept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quick look at the Crimson is enough to understand. Led by Ivy League Player of the Week Char Joslin, Harvard, which has won seven of its last eight games, kept its Ivy record unblemished last weekend with a overtime win over Dartmouth. One of Harvard's four league victories was a 2-1 overtime win over nationally-ranked Penn...
...Harvard kept the pressure on B.C. all game. The Crimson continually tried to push men upfield to take advantage of its ball possession...
...Crimson faced its biggest test of the match in the third set after Brown went up, 7-1. Harvard kept its cool and rattled off 12 straight points with Cunnigham serving into the weak part of Brown's lineup...
...through the later decades of the 19th century, the explosive industrialism that was the engine of American wealth pounded fiercely at the workers who kept it running. Factories were foul and dangerous. Twelve-hour workdays were common. Wages were driven mercilessly downward. Depressions periodically rattled the economy, erasing millions of jobs that paid little even in the best of times. In an increasingly desperate atmosphere, labor and capital faced off along a line drawn in blood...
...American Civil War forced the curtain higher. When the fighting began in 1861, Mathew Brady was the country's best-known photographer, an early specimen of the celebrity portraitist and a frank businessman whose New York City studio was located not far from P.T. Barnum's museum. Brady kept a second studio in Washington, and when the First Battle of Bull Run broke out just 25 miles from the capital, he rushed toward the lines with two vanloads of equipment. Amid the scramble of the Union retreat, all the plates from that first day's work were lost...