Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Discovering that all of this was great fun, the College fire department soon acquired its own engine, which was tended regularly by students. Once, to keep it in shape, the students set an old house on fire. Because the apparatus was slightly decrepit the boys nearly reached the scene after the neighbors had succeeded in halting the blaze. Undaunted, the students pumped water on the neighbors, who had intruded upon the boys' prerogative. The real compensation for fighting even this blaze was a steak dinner at the Porter House...
Large American colleges should join in doing "missionary work" among low-income families, Dean Monro urged yesterday. This work, he stated, would remove "psychological barriers" that keep students from low-income areas from applying to college...
...Almost all sections of the wiring have failed at least once," Miss Gale admitted, "and frequent repair is needed to keep the station operating at all." Furthermore, most of the wiring diagrams were destroyed when the basement of Holmes Hall flooded in 1954, and one microphone outlet has been "lost" since that time...
...Canada crossed on the ice. Purdue and Park Service biologists, some of whom have braved the island's fierce and lonely winter to study the working of nature's balance, report that the wolves' system is to cut a single moose out of a herd and keep nipping at him day after day until he weakens. Sometimes it takes a week. In crusted snow that supports wolves, the most formidable moose cannot escape. But deep, soft snow is a refuge for moose; wolves flounder in it helplessly, and there the moose can turn on its tormentors...
...Pied Piper of Hamelin, also provided the stuffed white Peking ducks that were passed off as seagulls when Ethel Merman blazed away at them in Annie Get Your Gun; in Mineola, L.I. Sauter was a taxidermist of the old school, a conservative who preferred to let his subjects keep their own skulls...