Word: holde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shah repaid President Truman's hospitality with a lavish dinner for 800 in the main' ballroom of the Shoreham-Hotel; the Iranian Embassy was too small to hold the dinner there. Said he: "The President is one of the finest men I ever...
...Flares. Splashing through cold, tumbling waves, 18 of the plane's 20 passengers safely reached two life rafts they had managed to launch before the aircraft sank. But two enlisted men disappeared before their companions could reach them through the swells. Crowded aboard two rafts built to hold only six men apiece, the survivors settled down to the bruising, salt-sprayed hours of waiting...
...about the law of evidence." From that meeting on, Philosopher Mortimer Adler was to learn a lot about the dean-and so was the rest of the world. Out of their acquaintance was to come a challenge aimed at everything that many U.S. colleges and universities had come to hold most estimable: spreading campuses, more & more courses, a steady stream of glossy new facts. The sharp question that Hutchins was to put to U.S. higher education (in the loudest of voices): What shall we do with the facts? Robert Hutchins got his chance to make the challenge just two years...
...Waldorf's system has grown a "you-get-'em, we'll-hold-'em" alliance between the defensive and offensive units that prompted Cal's Safety Man Carl Van Heuit to apologize to the offense after a 35-21 victory over U.C.L.A. Never before, with platoons rushing in & out of the fray, had football been so akin to modern war and its specialists so dependent on G.H.Q...
...much of the revenue lost last winter when short-haul DC-35 sometimes carried only two or three passengers a trip. Explained Damon: "You can't fly an airplane with that light a load factor and not lose your shirt. And we lost ours." T.W.A. hopes to hold on to its shirt this winter by curtailing DC-3 operations...