Word: holde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...followed by a little dancing at one of the better night-clubs. As for the homogeneity--the Business School has dances under the auspices of the Gaydon Club which are generally very well attended and otherwise successful. Yet, obviously, these men have no more--probably less, in fact--to hold them together than do the members of the Junior Class...
...highly improbable that at Harvard any division under one Faculty could be organized into units as self-sufficient as this. No one familiar with the University would hold such a belief. The existence of the other parts of the University, each under its own Faculty, exercises too powerful an influence to permit such a system...
...Citizens, your Sovereign remains tranquil and confident that recent events have been greatly exaggerated abroad. On the eve of the season most essential to Monaco's prosperity, Prince Louis calls the people of Monaco, in the name of and by the affection they hold for their country to an appreciation of their sane and essential duties...
...Argentina is to the castanets, Casals to the cello, Kreisler to the violin. Last year his U. S. debut was one of the major events of the season. Last week he played again without accompaniment, music by Handel, Bach, Haydn, Albeniz, with such skill and understanding as to hold his Manhattan audience rapt...
...business of placing the condemned man in the electric chair is quickly and simply done. Then-"as the switch is thrown into its socket there is a sputtering drone, and the body leaps as if to break the strong leather straps that hold it. Sometimes a thin gray wisp of smoke pushes itself out from under the helmet that holds the head electrode, followed by the faint odor of burning flesh. The hands turn red, then white, and the cords of the neck stand out like steel bands. After what seems an age, but is. in fact, only two minutes...