Word: holde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policy for student organizations is simple. Any recognized student organizations can hold a meeting in a Harvard building, if they can find a room available, and listen to any speaker they can persuade to come. The fact that a man speaks at Harvard does not mean that Harvard in any way endorses his views or even that the organization involved does. If the Dean's Office were to attempt to decide who would be allowed to speak to a Harvard organization, whose views were safe and whose weren't, the views of those permitted to speak would then carry Harvard...
...body which cannot govern itself will not long hold the respect of the people who have chosen it to govern the country...
...serve as volunteers, somewhat as do the members of U.S. draft boards. Bevan insisted, in opposition to some of his Socialist colleagues, that the boards remain nonpolitical, i.e., that Conservatives may serve on them. "We have taken money out of medicine," he said. "I will not let politics take hold." British hospitals, virtually all taken over by the Ministry, are run by special hospital boards, usually composed of the same officials who ran them before. In the whole British health service today there are about 10,000 voluntary administrative workers; Bevan's Health Ministry itself gets along with only...
Although the majority of British doctors were originally opposed to it, 86% have joined the plan. Not all have done so because they wanted to, but because they could not earn enough money from private practice any more. Few can afford to hold out. Said one fashionable specialist: "Let's not be blind. In a few years, there'll probably be no private practice at all. All you do by not joining the plan is eventually to commit hara-kiri...
...seemed to be in clearing the ground. Perhaps he could do that better once his ideas were formulated and accordingly, he took a fresh sheet and numbered it "20". "In view of the factors outlined above," he began, "we will proceed to demonstrate that the customary explanations will not hold water." He had finally come to the point where he needed an idea. The Library was the place to go; but first he had to pick out his suspenders. Then he would walk to the Library. He looped a string around his finger just to make sure...