Word: holde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English and French tennis championships, fair-to-middling painter; to Frederick Shander Moody Jr., 27, stock broker of San Francisco, fair-to-middling tennis player.* They first met at Cannes in 1926. Said Miss Wills last week: "I will play tennis as long as I can hold a racquet." The London Evening News talked to Miss Wills in Berkeley, Calif., over long distance telephone to get the story...
...from their positions in order to continue research which they considered would be more profitable than retaining an administrative post. The possible ramifications of such a discussion are infinite, but it is highly probable that when our present educational system emerges from its period of transition, trained executives will hold the positions now filled by scholars...
Leroy S. Buffington, in 1830, was a young Minneapolis architect with an idea. He had conceived a building which he called a "cloud scraper." Simple was the construction principle ? a steel skeleton with a shelf at each floor to hold the sur face masonry. He took out patents on it. Since then, almost every skyscraper in the world has been built on Mr. Buffington's principle. Last week, Architect Buffington, 89, received a check for $2,250 as royalties on the construction on the 25-story Rand Building, in Minneapolis. It was the first time, despite eleven infringement suits...
...announcement yesterday that there was a serious doubt about the advisability of holding a Junior Dance this year was disappointing surprise to many members of the class. The Junior Prom is an old tradition at Harvard, as in most colleges, which is anticipated with pleasure. It is a pity that the indifference of a few members of the class should be more in evidence than the strong desire of many to continue the custom. It is strange that a militant move should be underway in the Sophomore class to hold a dance this year, while the Juniors should be expressing...
...announcement by the officers of the Class of 1930 that the current pertinent problem as to whether 1930 shall or shall not hold a Junior Dance this year in Memorial Hall is to be decided by the class members themselves in a referendum is the strongest indication that the advisability of going through automatically with the decadent function year by year is questioned at last...