Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...return in history-an average 6% v. 3.48% in 1929 and 4.87% in the last prewar bull market of 1937. What is more, during an inflationary period, the stock market is "safer" than Government bonds, since stock prices generally go up as the value of the dollar declines. The holder of a Government bond, on the other hand, loses to the extent that the dollar's purchasing power decreases...
...called him-had gone ashore to see a movie, The Cruel Sea, and then got in touch with the local Polish colony. The ship's medical officer was gone, too. Last week Britain's Home Secretary confirmed the news: the ship's doctor and Captain Jan, holder of the Gold Cross of Merit for "outstanding service" to the Polish Communist regime, had separately asked for political asylum in Britain, and it had been granted...
...well in collegiate circles, setting a record for the mile, in 4:06.3, a fortnight ago. But there was no real competition for him. no one to test his utmost. In the Compton (Calif.) Invitation Meet last week, Santee got the competition he needed: Belgium's Gaston Reiff, holder of world records at two miles, 2,000 and 3,000 meters, and Finland's Denis Johansson, his country's national titleholder, who has outrun some of Paavo Nurmi's records...
Born. To Zoe Ann Olsen Jensen, 22, blonde, blue-eyed Olympic aquastar and holder of 14 U.S. diving championships, and Jackie Jensen, 26, Washington Senator rightfielder and former University of California All-America (1948) fullback: their second child, first son; in Washington, D.C. Name: Jon Arthur. Weight...
...were locked in mortal combat far overstates the case. With at least one aspect of the problem, it is highly likely that the two were in agreement. Yale's scholarship program is at present so "pure", athletically speaking, that it has reached the logical extreme of absurdity. A scholarship holder at Yale today must maintain grades in the top two-thirds of his class in order to participate in athletics. This means he must have an average some-what better than 70--and 70 is considered a "distinction" grade at New Haven. Under this arrangement, a scholarship-holder with "distinction...