Word: kept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former Indiana University superswimmer did not quit; he kept swimming and that summer joined the great Duke Kahanamoko, as the only American swimmers to go to three Olympics...
Rogers said he feels a strong personal commitment to the future of Quaker higher education adding he believes "Guilford is one of the best kept academic secrets around...
Such gallows humor has all but disappeared now. Fears of instant contagion are gone, at least among people who know better, though the stigma surrounding leprosy remains. Boudreaux has seen the changes, kept record of them in his magazine, and done what he can to remove the stigma...
...mill, hack comedies. Arkin is totally insane in this movie, and well he should be. His unabashed portrayal of this bizarre "visitor from the stars" captures plenty of subtlety. His funniest scene in the movie--when he extricates himself from a sensory deprivation tank he's been kept in for almost 200 years--is so good you want to rerun it many times so it'll settle in your memory. His brain loses 500 million years of evolution in the process, and in the following minutes in the movie, Arkin acts out all of human evolutionary history--from the very...
Cummings' father called him "Chub," short for cherub. His mother always wanted a son who would be a poet, and she kept a record. His first verse, at age three: "Oh my little birdie oh/ With his little toe, toe, toe!" At the Cambridge Latin School in Cambridge, Mass., Estlin tried to write a poem a day. Sample at age 16: "God, keep me trying to win the prize;/ Pamper me not,though I be crying./ Though snickering worlds wink owlish eyes, God,keep me trying." Harvard (A.B. 1915, M.A. 1916) all but undid this model boy. His discovery...