Word: holde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...city can hold a nine months school each year while the average for the rural district is seven. There is 7.7% illiteracy in rural districts and 4.4 in the city. The difference in health defects is startling. Eye defects: rural 23%, city 12. Defective teeth: rural 48%, city 33. Only 25.7% of the rural children 15 to 18 years of age are in high school as compared with 71.1% in the city...
...Unless he be a manager of a major sport, or hold an important office on a publication, no undergraduate may have a telephone in his dormitory room. To the few Yale telephone owners, a telephone is said to be a nuisance. Yalemen who have them are expected to take messages for other Yalemen, send telegrams, seek from professors forgotten assignments. C. Last week from New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. came more Yale telephone news. The publicity department had found that undergraduates at New Haven telephone more per capita than any other group of people in Connecticut. During the academic year...
...investments are the larger Norwegian whaling companies. Last season three of the big ones reported combined profits of over $2,000,000, declared average dividends of 30%. Typical of the industry is the C. A. Larsen, biggest whaling boat (9,431 tons). Last year the C. A. Larsen, her hold filled with whale oil, tossed 500 tons of coal into the sea to make room for more oil, returned with a $1.000,000 cargo. Such trips paid off her construction cost in two years...
...mathematician. Besides his System, he uses shrewd psychological strategy. In his game with Grand Master Rudolf Spielman, the winner of which had a chance to tie Cuban Jose R. Capablanca for first place, he humored his opponent's overaggressiveness, craftily exchanging pieces to gain a winning advantage. To hold his lead in the final game, he had to vanquish Grand Master Tartakower of Vienna. Noting that his adversary looked weary, he deployed on a lengthy rochade attack. After six hours Tartakower's game collapsed and sly Nimzowitsch cinched the tournament...
...bodies. They swapped stamps and stamp stories, spoke familiarly of "Luzons" (Philippine issue), "Bull's-eyes" (elliptically shaped Brazilian issue), compared albums. Seldom in the history of Minneapolis have there been so many pairs of tweezers in town. Stamp-men tweeze their treasures to avoid smudging, wear, tear; to hold them up to the light or pick them out of benzine baths in search of watermarks...