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Word: holde (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that there is a large measure of personal feeling among the men. They feel that they are more than white collar workers and should be thought of as such. Every man is confident of his ability to take his place behind any A & P counter in the country and hold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUSINESS SCHOOL PROFESSORS STRIKE | 3/6/1928 | See Source »

...Thousands of them may be Catholics, but the foundation of the Democratic Party was erected with sufficient strength to hold those of every creed, without bias or prejudice or favoritism of discrimination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Again, Walker | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...When I got hold of a big bull horned toad one day I saturated a rag with chloroform and held it under his nose long enough to have killed a bulldog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Horned Toad | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...makes bulletlike noises as it hits the walls. Extra racquets are piled at the side of the court. Breaking one, a player grabs another, finishes the point. Sometimes in a hard game a champion breaks five or six racquets in succession. They cost fourteen dollars apiece. Court tennis players hold their racquets toward the middle, near where the rivet would be on a tennis racquet. Jay Gould was famous for his "Railroad service" which climbs along the penthouse, dropping almost dead. Etchebaster has a service like Gould...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Court Tennis | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

Strangler Lewis and Joe Stecher, a farmer boy who once made a mule lose consciousness by locking its ribs in a scissors hold, met on a mat in St. Louis and pulled at each other's heads for one hour while a sleepy newspaper man snored loudly somewhere near them. After a while Lewis put Stecher down, then put him down again, winning the world's heavyweight wrestling championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Muscle | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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