Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the Empire State's meadows and mountains were greening into summer, Democrats were preening with unqualified exuberance. In the fight for the statehouse, they had an unquestionable advantage, i.e., they held it already. Four years ago Multimillionaire W. Averell Harriman hit the hustings after two decades of public service, squeaked in as Governor by 11,125 votes. Harriman was stopped cold in his attempt to parlay the post into a 1956 Democratic nomination for President. So he decided to dig in at Albany. The Governor shoveled generous chunks of patronage to traditionally starved upstate Democrats to get them...
Harvard's slightest worry will be on the ground defense. The line, with Hank Keohane, captain Bob Shaunessy, Jim Keating, Bob Foster, Hal Anderson, Pete Briggs, and Stu Hershon held Buffalo to less than 50 yards rushing last week, and Crimson opponents all year will find this unusually strong unit a tough nut to crack...
...involved with the production of experimental vacuum tubes in Cruft and the pre-radar training courses held there during the Second World War. When the Lyman Laboratory was completed in 1931, he was appointed supervisor of the stockroom...
...authority on Catholicism, Dawson held that Catholicism and Communism could never be reconciled, because "Communism is primarily a monolithic power organization and would never consent to a division of spiritual and temporal powers...
Previously, the atomic submarine Skate held the submerged record of 31 days, 5 1/2 hours...