Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another use that Capp has made of Harvard in Li'l Abner resulted in Yale's being destroyed by the sweep of a lizard's tail. Hairless Joe and Lonesome Polecat--two of Dogpatch's more colorful denizens--got hold of a tiny lizard that matured into a giant pre-historic monster. While this process of growth was going on, Joe and Polecat were awarded veterans' scholarships--Polecast fought against the U.S. Army and Joe fought against Polecat in the Indian wars--and went to Harvard. On the way north, they stopped at New Haven, and shouting "Us Harvards hates...
...Johnson's pressurized cockpit altitude was 45,000 ft., and his pressure suit automatically inflated with oxygen from a bottle beneath his seat. His afterburner had long since lost nearly all its thrust, but Johnson kept coasting up. At length he knew that he could no longer hold the nose up in the thinning atmosphere, slacked off on the stick, nosed up and over, began the long drop down. He had shot 91,249 ft. up into the sky-about two miles higher than the previous world's record.*It had taken precisely 27 minutes...
...chances with such bad heredity. They drill the little girl in the fundamentals of her profession: 1) the proper way to eat an ortolan ("Bad table manners have broken up more homes than infidelity"); 2) the proper method of assaying a jewel ("Wait for the first-class jewels, Gigi. Hold on to your ideals!"); 3) the proper attitude toward marriage (''Instead of getting married at once, it sometimes happens we get married at last...
Soon after their arrival in Cambridge, the Russians will hold a press conference in Winthrop House. The N.S.A., the Radcliffe Student Government Association and the Russian Research Center have arranged several receptions and dinners for them and they are scheduled to meet Cambridge Mayor Thomas M. McNamara...
...faltered only in the eventful third frame. Mouse Kasarjian led off by knocking a long triple to right center which centerfielder Bill Dickson reached but failed to hold. After Brigham had struck out, Tom Bergantino tapped a slow roller down the third base line, and Kasarjian just beat the throw to the plate with a head-first slide...