Word: held
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University soccer team was held to a 1 to 1 tie by a powerful Syracuse eleven on Saturday...
...Blue one-foot line at the opening of the second period. A stubborn Eli defense resisted and took the ball on cowns. A second time a vicious assault in which Gilligan figured prominently carried the ball to the three-yard line, where the Yale forward wall again held firm...
Will TIME'S expression: "dry as a cactus" hold water? Desert travelers sometimes split a barrel cactus in half, squeeze the pulp through a cloth, get a cup of sweetish water. The giant cactus, a mass of pulp held together by fibrous ribs, absorbs water on rainy days and swells out like a toad. Woodpeckers drill holes in the trunk, occupy them...
...ever lived who held so high a place in the affection of the people of this city," Mayor Thacher said, for them...
...McHenry County, Ill., a dog-catcher was the only one of 115 Republican public servants to escape indictment by the Grand Jury for mixing crime with politics. The indictments were held back until after election...