Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Small concentrators dinners are an important part of the Quincy-Holmes affiliation. The dinners will be held simultaneously at Quincy and Holmes so that two departments can meet each time. In this way, every field of concentration should have three or four dinners a year, Mrs. Daisy Newman, Head Resident of Holmes Hall, said...
Rebuttal. In Lisbon Falls, Me., when the town's selectmen increased the tax rate on real estate, the citizens held a special meeting, voted to dismiss all five selectmen from their jobs...
...enforce its 1951 decision condemning Egypt's refusal to let ships carrying Israeli goods pass through the Suez Canal. Indignantly, Golda Meir reported that the Danish freighter Inge Toft, which was stopped by the Egyptians last May with a cargo originating in Israel, "is being held to this day at Port Said." The United Arab Republic's Farid Zeineddine promptly asked for the floor and, hardily ignoring the U.N. ruling and the verdict of two Arab-Israeli wars, shouted: "The question of free passage through the Suez Canal is an aspect of the Palestine question"-i.e., the continued...
...fierce radiation in the reactor appeared to bother the bacteria hardly at all. When the reactor was shut down but still highly radioactive, they multiplied fast. Even when it was running full blast, they held their own. Since they normally divide every 20 minutes or so, this meant that radiation was killing only about as many as managed to live and divide. Just how much radiation the Pseudomonas got is hard to estimate, because the water circulates at varying distances from the core of the reactor, but Dr. Fowler thinks they may have absorbed more than 10 million rep (roentgen...
...land, Aalto can do no wrong, is held in awe as a kind of national monument. When Saynatsalo allowed the electric-light company to erect a hideous neon advertising sign that marred the view, Aalto led a night boat-raiding party, stoned the offending sign to smithereens. The electric company started to sue for damages, then thought better...