Word: held
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This loan was obtained to equip Florida fruit shipping warehouses with apparatus for destroying the Mediterranean fruit fly on outgoing produce. By this method fruit is first heated above 100°, then suddenly cooled to just above freezing where it is held long enough to insure the demise of Halterophera Capitata larvae...
Last week regular Virginia Democrats-i.e., those who supported their presidential ticket and lost the State to the G. O. P.-held their primary, chose as their candidate Prof. John Garland Pollard of William & Mary. Polling five-sevenths of the 140,000 votes cast, he far outran two rivals, who, for a united Democracy, immediately pledged him their support. The primary campaign had been mild and lulling. No bad feeling was permitted to creep in. Democratic ranks were closed simultaneously with the polls...
Last week the Welsh Royal National Eisteddfod was held amid the bowers of Sefton Park in smoky Liverpool, most populous with Welshmen (75,000) of any city save London. From all over the world went humming Welshmen, chiefly of course from the mine-scarred valleys of Wales. There were more than 500 from the U. S., including the famed Anthracite Choral Society of 172 mixed voices from Scranton, Pa. Two girls went all the way from California with their grandmother, aged 74. Others journeyed from Australia. They were welcomed by their most distinguished countryman, David Lloyd George. Then rose...
...possession of the seals, State authorities moved to finish a case on which they had labored long. They held eight men under indictment for selling forged medical degrees and Illinois medical licenses. Citizens of the State were not surprised to learn that the accused ringleader was W. H. H. Miller who, for irregularities in issuing doctors' licenses, had been ousted in 1922 as head of the State Department of registration and education...
Despite prophecies that the winner of the contest would mysteriously become a "second Edison" at once, and rumors that Inventor Edison would turn all his duties over to the "brightest bright boy" and then retire, the contest was held for no such spectacular reason. Its purpose was described in the rules as "to stimulate the interest of the youth of America in mental development, with particular emphasis on scientific matters, and, more generally, in the high ideals that make for the highest type of American manhood." When reports that he would retire continued, Inventor Edison said, "I never intend retiring...