Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Become Learned." The daughter of Montgomery Hamilton, a scholarly man of leisure. Edith grew up in Fort Wayne, Ind. At seven she began studying Greek and Latin, was able to hold her sisters enthralled for hours with her tales out of Sir Walter Scott and her recitations of Keats and Shelley. By the time she graduated from Miss Porter's Finishing School for Young Ladies in Farmington, Conn., she knew exactly what she wanted to do. "My dear Edith." clucked Miss Porter, "you can become learned. But, my dear Edith, I don't think much of learning...
...Exit. At dawn they were climbing, Bonatti leading Gobbi by rope. Up they crept through a narrow funnel in the rock face that led to a dome where there was no hold and no exit. Unable to move or risk driving a piton into the rock, Bonatti hung motionless for an hour, finally gambled on lunging to his right, amazingly lighted on a toehold and handhold. In twelve hours the climbers inched upward only 1,000 ft., camped at dark on a precarious ledge. Throats parched, they longed for the water they had left behind in order to travel light...
...identify the returning message, Columbia scientists can "hold" the signal for a relatively long time ("the major fraction of a second"). "We can keep the signal 'standing still' long enough to identify it against background interference," explains one scientist...
...record $5 billion, largely in an effort to cope with surpluses. Instead of going to markets, countless tons of the wheat, corn and cotton harvested last week will swell the $5.5 billion worth of farm surpluses stored in U.S. Government silos, warehouses and cold-storage vaults, which already hold more wheat than the nation consumes in a year and a pound of cheese for every man, woman, child and white rat in the country...
...keep high price supports from boosting surpluses, the Government imposes acreage allotments on farmers who ask for supports.* Last year, in a further effort to hold down surpluses, Congress passed a soil-bank program to pay farm ers for taking acreage out of production. But the technological explosion makes such curbs futile. Last year, with strict acreage and marketing controls in effect, millions of acres in the soil bank and a severe drought pinching the Southwest, technology-armed U.S. farmers matched the biggest total harvest they had ever known. On land diverted from corn and wheat under acreage allotments, farmers...