Word: holde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drunk until he has to hold on to the grass to keep from falling off the face of the earth...
Pavlov. Leningrad's Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was the most revered man at the Congress. Limping on his right foot he tried to avoid a crowd of learned admirers. They crowded about him and forced him to hold a sort of court. He liked the adoration. His early big work was on the salivary glands and on the nerves of the heart. His current work is on the functioning of the brain. Behaviorists have taken up his theories and made them fairly common knowledge. His picture of mental activity is mechanistic. The brain acts according to habits. Certain repeated stimuli condition...
...operation $25,000,000 of 5½% cumulative preferred stock of Solvay American will be sold, this stock carrying warrants permitting the purchase until 1934 of Allied Chemical & Dye stock at $325, one share for each four shares of Solvay American preferred. When the operation is complete Solvay will hold 466,488 shares of Allied Chemical & Dye, more than 20% of the 2,178,109 outstanding...
...father, who is a billionaire, that she is married. She had kept this a secret all the time and lived in her own house. Only the occasional entry of Vaudevillain Ken Murray and his orchestra relieve the dreadful tedium of Half Marriage. Typical line of dialog: "When you hold me like this, I'm gaga...
...company hit last week was Airvia Transportation Co., which is just getting its wing-hold commercially. U. S. postal inspectors swooped into its Manhattan offices, ordered officers and employes to bring their account books to a Federal grand jury for study. Other inspectors did the same at Coastal Airways office, because of that line's pending merger with Airvia. Still other inspectors visited Hadley & Co., investment security sellers. Federal warrants were issued for the arrest of one Austin Howard Montgomery (alias Arthur Montgomery, alias Monte Griffo, onetime convict) and Gerald Tiffany (alias Harry Taylor). Trans-Atlantic Flyers Roger Quincy...