Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maryland's lean Millard Tydings, his sharp jaw jutting, his face red with wrath, rose to address his colleagues in the U.S. Senate. In his opening words there was an ominous restraint, in his tone a deadly edge. Senator Tydings, holder of the Distinguished Service Medal, the Distinguished Service Cross, grimly said he would speak "from a very slight knowledge of modern warfare...
Last fall Mikkola entertained hopes of having his "big three" combination of Pete Harwood, Dave Murray, and Jeff Tootell around for spring competition. But Murray (holder of national inter-collegiate javelin crown) has been transferred to Midshipmen School, while Tootell (who entered College last November after copping the national scholastic shot-put title) has gone into the Army, leaving only Harwood, who is now a Sophomore in the V-12 program. Other men who have left include Tuttle, Atwell, Wharton, Noble, and Meanix...
...Eastern Arctic, David McKeand is virtual potentate of a 700,000-sq. mi. area -one-fifth of Canada's land mass-in which live only an estimated 6,150 people (6,000 of them Eskimos). Bank manager, veteran of the Boer War and World War I, holder of the Military Cross, McKeand became a civil servant...
Tootel, national interscholastic shotput title-holder, may get a chance to see action in the Boston YMCA meet some time late in February. Other meets scheduled for the Crimson include away duals with Exeter on January 20 and with Andover on January...
...With no more paper available for Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit (500,000 copies), Reynal & Hitchcock are now issuing red and green certificates, at $2.75 each, entitling the holder to a copy early in 1945. In the first three weeks, bookstores ordered 6,000 certificates...