Word: held
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book* in which they suggested that all U. S. markets would be steadied if the governmental agencies of the U. S.-federal, state, municipal-would map out and authorize large programs of public work which will be needed eventually though not immediately. Let these programs then be held in abeyance, said the collaborators, until such time as labor and fiscal indices show or predict a slump, local or national. Then let the contracts, hire the men, buy the materials, do the public work, convert the slump into a boom...
...bald head, amid the rattle of handclaps and the roar of "Hoch! Hoch! HOCH!" Dr. Stresemann seemed paler than usual but otherwise utterly "the typical German," plump, correct and full of earnest energy. He, the smart son of a rich brewer, is the great Foreign Minister who has held office while eight German cabinets have fallen, and his ailing kidneys are those which have been of vital interest to all Europe for half a year...
Peace Efforts. By signing the Act of Separation, 474 clergymen and professors surrendered the benefices they held under the Establishment. To provide for them and to build churches was the enormous task Dr. Chalmers and his colleagues undertook. At the end of four years more than 700 churches had been provided. The Free Church, vigorous, evangelical, prospered. In 1900 it combined with the United Presbyterian Church...
...five days Schubert requiems were held in Vienna, Schubert symphonies played in the concert halls, Schubert songs sung in schools, over the radio. Outstanding was the visit to the grave by Austrian officials and ten German mayors, the unveiling of a fountain in his memory. Vienna paid Schubert scant notice when he lived. Now, 100 years dead, he is indeed...
...held Sergey McTavish by the collar of his astrakhan tunic and the seat of his breeches, kicking and wriggling like a retriever pup. Then he swung the boy up level with his shoulder and threw him sprawling on a snowdrift...