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Word: holderness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, he went on to explain, he holds a traditional prerogative given to the holder of that chair by the original constitution of Harvard College, of grazing his cattle on the Yard grass. However, he has never tried to use his prerogative...

Author: By John C. Robbins jr., | Title: Copeland Proves Wit Still Keen As Famed Professor Turns 80 | 4/27/1940 | See Source »

...miler. While 14,000 spectators stood on their toes and yelled themselves hoarse-and Tutor Nurmi sank forlornly to a wooden bench in the infield-Rice tore around the Garden like a tornado, broke the tape 28 yards in front of Maki, 20 yards in front of onetime Record-Holder Don Lash, who had also whizzed past the Finn. Rice's time (13:52.3) not only broke the world's record he set six weeks ago, but was only ten seconds short of the mark Maki made outdoors in Finland last summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pony Express | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...Odlum, Atlas' largest holder (roughly 200,000 shares of common, 200,000 warrants), a boom in Curtiss-Wright stock to these levels would be bonanza. To him also it means that his new $25,000,000 investment company will have only common stock, no preferred dividends to worry about in his speculative business. And it means that his clean capital structure may attract new speculative money, if he ever wants it. Even with its reduced capital Odlum's new Atlas, no longer an investment trust, now a new-fangled investment finance company, will tower over Wall Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Odlum Makes a Deal | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

Forthright Columnist Raymond Clapper lifted a lonely voice against Mr. McNutt's taking off: "Underground scandal of Washington . . . slow-motion assassination . . . major campaign atrocity . . . torture . . . poison-gas rumors . . . [Treasury] investigation about as secret as Mr. Roosevelt's celebrated cigaret-holder . . . crucifying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Demolition of McNutt? | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

Combating the views presented by John M. Brewer, associate professor of Education, and Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, Finley stated that under vocational training a student becomes a job-holder first and a human being second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOHN FINLEY OPPOSES TRAINING FOR CAREER | 3/23/1940 | See Source »

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