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Word: held (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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William H. Sullivan, Jr., president of the team's syndicate, confirmed that at a meeting held here yesterday an official told him the University thinks using the Stadium for professional football would connect the Harvard name directly with professional sports, and would be "inconsistent with its philosophy of athletics...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper and Robert E. Smith, S | Title: University Will Reject Offer to Rent Stadium | 12/4/1959 | See Source »

...smell-or rather, lack of smell. It was during the blazing summer of 1933, and Ray Brennan, then 25 and covering one of his first big stories, was facing Swindler Jake ("The Barber") Factor, who claimed before reporters and the police that he had been kidnaped, held for twelve days in a basement and just released. Factor said he was still wearing the same clothes in which he had been kidnaped-but his shirt and suit were clean and only slightly wrinkled. And there was another strange thing. Recalls Brennan: "One of the things that impressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nose for News | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Automobile sales will rise to 7,000,000 from 6,000,000 this year, in line with the rising U.S. population and a 6% increase in disposable personal income, said Louis J. Paradise, chief statistician for the U.S. Department of Commerce. But car production will be held down for several months because of the steel strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Previewing 1960 | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...Exports are up to $1.9 billion annually, with a 220% increase in minerals, themselves a $1 billion industry. At the same time, imports have been held to $1.8 billion as Australia supplies more of its own needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: The Boom in Australia | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Logic, argues Russell, cannot provide a man with a set of ethical beliefs. Russell does not even claim to know why he himself believes in the virtue of free inquiry, though logic can tell him the implications of such a belief: "If, for example, it is held that one should act with honesty, then this does not depend on the size, shape or color of those with whom one happens to be dealing. In this sense, then, the ethical problem gives rise to the conception of the brotherhood of man. It is a view first stated explicitly in the ethical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wrangler's World | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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