Word: holde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paradoxical as it may seem, as our economic strength increases we grow more and more concerned with the economic health of Europe. The older continent may no longer hold the undisputed political leadership of the world. Its teeming populations and the intelligent and technical skill of its business leaders and artisans are, nevertheless, still of prime importance to Americans...
...week W. Ticknor was given another try at tackle and Talbot was at guard, but Tuesday Kuehn got the tackle assignment and Ticknor shifted back to guard again. This combination seems to be the best one at present and should get the call on Saturday. B. Ticknor will hold down the center post flanked by Trainer and Barrett on the left while O'Connell and Douglas should be the ends...
Simultaneous, with the National Meeting, the New England Association of Summer Schools, with which Harvard is affiliated, will hold a meeting for its members. Deans from five New England summer schools will be present...
...Providence, moved a stately stream of men and women, capped, gowned, uniformed. They had to dig in their heels, so as to proceed with the gravity the occasion demanded, and tortuously descended from Brown's campus to the First Baptist Meeting House ("built for public worship and to hold commencements in") midway down College Hill. This was the formal part of Dr. Barbour's induction...
...unequal to the occasion. Her pleasing, natural tone could not offset faulty breathing. Once her over-taxed voice ran down like a forgotten phonograph. Accompanist Frank La Forge tried to save the situation with a skillfully improvised finale. Emma herself might have followed the accepted procedure for erring singers: hold a pose and hope for the best. Instead she grimaced, vanished through the curtains. A few seconds later she popped her head out again and emitted a high, piercing, utterly irrelevant note. Amazed, the audience applauded this unique effort as if it had been a complete and flawless song. Critics...