Search Details

Word: held (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Interrupted at this point by the startling din of an electric bell under the table, Sir James picked up two empty wine glasses, held them like the receiver and transmitter of a telephone, and spoke with concentrated whimsy thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Princesses with Daggers | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...original Mennonite was a Dutchman, Menno Simon, born while. Columbus was discovering America. He held that baptism may be performed only on the believer and recognized no authority except the Bible and one's enlightened conscience. During the 16th and 17th centuries, persecution of the Mennonites for such subversion doctrines was carried on in several European countries to the extreme of exterminating every Mennonite man, woman, and child who could be caught. Gradually, however the persistence of the sect triumphed, and in 1792 the won exemption from military service in France, though Napoleon pressed then into hospital service during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Schwartzenstruber on Schultzen | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...contest held this year, H.G. Abdian '30 won the local prize of the University while Harvard received fourth place in the national contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW YORK TIMES CURRENT EVENTS CONTEST ALTERED | 5/4/1929 | See Source »

...also intended that the contest be held a sufficiently long time after Mid-years and far enough before April Hours so that it will not conflict in any way with either examination period. The probable date will be either in the last week in February or the first week in March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW YORK TIMES CURRENT EVENTS CONTEST ALTERED | 5/4/1929 | See Source »

...Note-The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be with held...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tables For Ladies | 5/3/1929 | See Source »

Previous | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | Next