Word: holde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the Academy of Sciences of the Rumanian People's Republic, in collaboration with the Rumanian Soviet Scientific Institute, will hold a symposium on the scientific achievements of Joseph Stalin, occasioned by the Generalissimo's forthcoming 70th birthday. Papers are to be read on the following subjects...
...have been dangerous; Yunnan's Governor Lu Han was going over to the Communists, and his troops had turned their caps inside out to hide the Nationalist insignia and show their new allegiance. Lu had even tried to persuade some Szechwanese generals to seize Chiang in Chengtu and hold him for the Reds...
...Melissa's 6,000 people, 1,840 are unemployed. The peasants live in filthy hillside hovels, ten and twelve to a room. Between them, 6,000 people hold 7,400 acres of hard, rocky land, which means an average of little more than an acre for each-barely enough to stave off starvation. Some 4,000 acres, including fine, fertile land by the nearby seashore, are owned by Marquis Anselmo Berlingieri, whose family has held them for centuries. Most of Berlingieri's land is uncultivated; he finds it more profitable to graze his sheep...
Another ancient-automobile owner, Lawrence H. Osgood '51, considers his 1929 Packard a leading claimant for the title of "Biggest Old Car" on the campus. It is said to hold...
Certainly "Stormy Weather" has too much sticky sentiment, too much sound and fury. The script is not worth the paper it is written on, but not even a poor script can hold a good entertainer down...