Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brief speech De Gaulle paid tribute to opponents (such as ex-Premier Pierre Mendeés-France) "to whom I remain attached by bonds which held firm in the past and which will, I think, hold firm in the future...
...Matador Aparicio boldly approached. As one peoón held the bull's tail and two others blinded the animal with their capes, he killed the bull with a thrust at the base of the skull. Commented a newsman the next day: "Nobody in the ring showed such nobility, such cleanliness in battle, as that bull...
...curriculum is largely determined by college demands. Recently, efforts have been made to enable students to take advantage of the advanced standing programs at Harvard and other colleges. Classes are held in small discussion groups, with constant insistence on self-expression. There are few formal examinations, but frequent critical essays are required in all course. Projects and several long papers allow college-level work in the last year...
...four pre-college classes with an enrollment of about 1300. Its system of grouping classes represents a departure from usual junior and senior high divisions. Until last September, the school also handled the seventh and eighth grades, but enrollment reached over 1700 in a building which should not have held more than 1400. Scarsdale voted to erect a junior high school which was completed for use this year. The new multi-million dollar building includes sixth, as well as seventh and eighth graders, thus also easing the squeeze in the elementary. The four-year high school has today approximately...
...cent of 1956's graduates went to junior colleges, while in 1957 13 per cent continued their education at a two-year school. The increasing competition to get into college will probably widen further the distribution of schools chosen by seniors and also weaken some of the prestige criteria held by pupils and their parents. In this sense the growing competition may be healthy...