Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Showing his heels to the best that the Crimson track squads had to offer, Roy Cochran of Indiana, holder of the world's Indoor record in the 440, rounded the wooden track in the Briggs Cage yesterday afternoon faster than it has ever been circumnavigated before...
Oswald Jacoby's wife, Tennist Mary Zita McHale, got a job as a factory hand (hydraulic sub-assembly work) in the Dallas plant of North American Aviation. Onetime holder of national tennis championships in municipal contests, bridge tournament partner of her famed husband (now with OPM in Washington), she said she was having the time of her life as a factory hand, was spending all her wages on defense bonds...
...bank loans, try to sublet their showrooms to butchers and grocers. In this they will need help. As part of the rationing plan now in the Washington works, dealers will get easy-payment Federal or private loans to carry their new cars until bought by some lucky holder of a ration card...
...promote South American good will, Manhattan's misogynous New York Athletic Club, for the first time in its 73-year history, last week permitted women to splash in its pool. Reason: Brazil's 26-year-old Maria Lenk, breaststroke champion of South America and holder of the women's world's record at 200 and 400 meters...
Ranking Roman Catholics were equally emphatic. The Pilot, diocesan organ of William Cardinal O'Connell of Boston, last week editorialized: "Wars can be just. Violence may be used against the unjust aggressor." Said the other U.S. holder of the red hat, Dennis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia: "Like our fellow American citizens we will do our utmost to protect our country by winning the war, and...to that end we place at the disposal of our Government everything in our possession...