Word: held
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Army posts 19,162 religious services, attended by 1,796,746 persons, were held...
...Expenditure of $24,000,000 last year for levees, revetments and dredging in the Mississippi River advanced Flood Control so far that "the largest flood that has ever passed down the river without serious crevasses was held between the main river levees without any disastrous breaks." This year's expenditure...
...months Sheriff Sam Johnson vainly quizzed terror-muted hillbillies. At last an intercepted note furnished him a clue with which he wormed needful testimony from the girl and others. Five men, arrested last week, were held in separate jails to protect them from mobbery...
Forgetful of the details of that North Russia campaign of the A. E. F., New York City paid the corpses brief homage. Fort Jay guns banged out a salute of 17 guns. Flags were half-staffed. In a pier baggage room in Hoboken was held a funeral service. Many a wreath was stacked around the coffins. Drums rolled. Rifles discharged thrice. Buglers blew "taps." There were no crowds, no major-generals, no Congressional committees...
Several of the most prominent swordsmen of the country were seen in is public fencing exhibition in Hemenway Gymnasium last night. This was the first such demonstration ever held at Harvard, and there was an unusually good turnout of approximately 500 spectators...