Word: holde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jahncke's position in the Navy Department had developed into an almost hereditary public office for the Roosevelt family. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. occupied it for a year (1897-98). Then came his cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, now New York's Governor, to hold it for seven years (1913-20). After a brief interregnum under Gordon Woodbury, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. stepped in, in 1921, turning the position over in 1924 to his cousin, Theodore Douglas Robinson, nephew of the elder Roosevelt...
...last meeting of the Schoolboy Rowing Association it was decided to hold the annual Schoolboy Regatta, which is sponsored by Harvard, in the Charles River Basin on Saturday June 1. The event which is open to all preparatory schools in the vicinity of Boston, is held each year to stimulate interest in schoolboy rowing. This year the race for the eights will be divided into two heats, one for private schools and the other for public schools. In the four-oared crew race, however, both divisions will row in the same heat...
...contrast to all this, Horween plans to hold scrimmages, with three practice games scheduled to be played under regular rules with the usual officials. The straight line-cracking offensive which has marked Harvard teams for a decade demands superlative condition which can be gained only by hard work. The more seasoning a player can get, the stronger he will be for the autumn...
...opportunity to see a demonstration of the teaching methods as employed in all departments of the Harvard Dental School will be given graduates when the Harvard Dental Alumni Association and Harvard Odontological Society of Boston hold a joint meeting at the Dental School on April...
...megaphone. The Earth Between. The latest play to fall into the hands of the experimental Provincetown Playhouse group is agricultural in background but cannot exactly be said to solve the problem of farm relief. It is a harrowing study of a widowed farmer and his almost maniacal desire to hold, against odds of youth and love, his young daughter. For his motives, see Freud. The play has a certain intensity of gloom, but much of its force is lost in clumsy ambiguity. However, it permits Miss Bette Davis to do an effective bit of acting as the daughter...