Word: tab
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three years he was kept in sanatoria and insane asylums, a maniac. That was the beginning of this century. Treatment then in use was to beat and cow the inmates cruelly. Maniac Beers kept tab of the cruelties and through interest in the subject regained mental balance. He was freed. Then he wrote his famed book, A Mind that Found Itself. For 20 years it has been a gospel to social workers...
...shrewd gasoline-pump man on Highway 65 put signs on two pumps?Hoover Gas and Smith Gas? same price, same grade. He then kept tab on the gallons bought at each pump. Customers bought heavily to boost their candidate. Smith...
...devoted greeting card salesman-"a sweet boy, but he's so full of sediments;" her Argentine gaga, passionate Alvarez Romano; her sugar daddy, high-powered banker; her ghost writer on the Evening Tabloid. The jealous Argentine stabs the sugar daddy, the newspapers take Dixie up, the Evening Tab kidnaps her (offering a reward), and Dixie is off to a good start. Show Girl is excellent burlesque. And it makes amusing reading. But enough is enough. In fact, 50 pages is enough...
...Keep Tab...
...some interest to those who follow the sporting items in TIME to know that a remarkable long distance runner has recently arrived in London from South Africa and it will not be amiss to keep tab on English dailies and weeklies till the end of the present month. The name of the runner is Arthur F. Newton, who last July shattered the world's record for 100 miles by covering that distance in 14 hrs. and 43 minutes. . . . Newton was educated at Bedford and left England 21 years ago to farm in Rhodesia, South Africa when only a youth...