Word: holde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inherent probability contained in the unrestrained language of the author. I think it safe to say that if the Taft letter had been generally known to the conservative, law-abiding, progressive people of the country before his appointment as Chief Justice of the United States he would not now hold that important office...
Nominee Smith, Mrs. Smith and daughter Emily Warner stepped off the train at South Station at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Policemen, three lines deep, and ropes failed to hold the burden of the mass. Wanting to touch, to say something to the Smith family, the People charged, milled, shoved, yelled. Scarcely heard were the screams of two girls whose bodies were bent back sharply over the ropes. Mrs. Smith became separated from her husband. He refused to take another step until she was restored to his side. An officer found her; she was white with fright. Finally...
Curly-haired Buddy Rogers is a janitor's son. He does not know this because when his mother died the county supervisors refused to trust his rearing to his drunken father and put him in an orphanage. Years have passed and the father, sober enough now to hold the job he has gotten in a Princeton dormitory, gets word that his son has been given the thousand dollars he has sent and will arrive to enter Princeton about the same time as the letter. He is advised not to reveal his identity...
...only 240 tons. These facts, known to all miners, were particularly familiar to a vagabond prospector, George Carson, called the "Desert Rat." For 23 years, he had wandered from mine to mine, pursuing an idea. The idea was a smelter which men could load from the side, which might hold twice or three times as much ore as the old top-charging furnace...
...take last week's football. I have been deluged with protests because of my hold announcement that Harvard would beat Dartmouth 13 to 7. They say that is what took the heart out of the Dartmouth boys. And I hate to see that so I'll not say a thing about Lehigh--not a word. Joe, Jr. tells me that the Harvard B team will win by only two touchdowns, but I'm not saying a word...