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Word: holde (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...binding. He is about to publish another. "Smiling Bill" Vogt is one of those rare men who have almost precise coordination of sight, thought and movement. He has a powerful wrist and a leathery thumb which let him dispense with reel brakes, drags or level winding devices. He can hold a fish even if its fight bends his rod nearly double. At 75 feet with a fly-rod and line he can slice a peeled banana or flick ashes from a cigaret. At 50 to 150 feet, aiming at 2-in. blocks bobbing in water, he has scored eight hits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fly Caster | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...Significance is bitterly condensed in two sentences. At the Front, murder, "that very crime on which formerly the world's condemnation and severest penalty fell, becomes our highest aim." The other sentence. "Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades?words, words, but they hold the horror of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Horror of the World | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...finding out what a student knows, or does not know, with the object of inflicting a penalty to the deficient. Were the examination used in the light of showing the students his weaknesses, that he might correct them, cramming would cease. Since in our own college some instructors hold this very view and have seen it worked out successfully, it cannot be tagged "just theory" and laid aside. Normal School News

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cramming--A Result | 6/12/1929 | See Source »

Members of the "Menaechmi" cast of the Harvard Classical Club will hold a meeting tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in Holden Chapel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Menaechmi Cast Meets | 6/11/1929 | See Source »

...hardest hit by the merger, however, was the German motor car industry which, with its largest unit (Opel) already a General Motors affiliate, and with one of its most menacing invaders (Ford) now backed by the resources of Germany's largest company, appeared more than ever unable to hold its own against U. S. competition. One outstanding difference between the General Motors-Opel and the Ford-I. G. F. arrangements was that General Motors bought into Opel, whereas I. G. F. bought into Ford. To discuss these international operations in warlike terms, the Ford-I. G. F. purchase represented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ford & I. G. F. | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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