Word: unkept
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...indigestible plot, full of false leads and unkept promises, is like a woman's magazine serial consumed at one gulp. It begins as a romance. Miss Hepburn is a scientist's daughter-a moody, headstrong girl who doesn't quite know what she wants out of life. Then Robert Taylor, a fabulously rich airplane-parts tycoon, sweeps her off her feet...
Birmingham. Author Leighton likes Birmingham, Ala. least of his five cities. City of unkept promise, he calls it, with vast natural resources and the lowest per capita public expenditure of any big U. S. city-near the bottom in appropriations for education and public health, near the top in its murder rate. Author Leighton's explanation of its unkept promise: racial conflict, absentee ownership...
...extension of the Leiter Cup baseball series into the examination period, an annual occurrence, has been the occasion of the usual homilies on "undergraduate irresponsibility." Complaints of appointments unkept, of carelessness and unreliability, break out at the slightest suggestion. The difficulty of securing trustworthy men for positions of even minor responsibility is becoming proverbial and, indeed, the question is one of the hardiest of the hardy perennials that grow in the editorial column. And that is not all. In the phrase "college-graduate irresponsibility" we have an addition to our categories. Again and again business men remark upon the shiftlessness...
...Harvard During the Civil War." He said in part: Harvard in the early sixties was more like a present day preparatory school than a college. The discipline in those days was very strict. Going to sleep in Chapel, smoking in the Yard, or appearing in class rooms with unkept clothes was always followed by a summons to appear before President Felton. It was this discipline, however, which made the College in those days so united and which consequently made the separation of the students to join the two armies so painful...
Many of the seeds of future growth in the University were planted in the fifties. There were many trees in the yard then, but none of them were very large and the walks and grounds about the College were entirely unkept. There were no such things as board walks or sewers in those days, and, save for the light coming from the student's windows, the Yard was dark at night. Gas had just been introduced into Cambridge, and it was then thought too dangerous to introduce it into the College buildings. In 1857, however, the College agreed to allow...