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Word: holdes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abolitionists hold other cards. Students may, they contend, tend to take easier or less demanding courses with the grade squarely in mind. More serious and apparent, however, is the eleventh-hour anxiety and general mark-consciousness that pervade the academic testing ground. Education then becomes a process of accumulating gold stars rather than broadening personal experience and understanding...

Author: By Robert H. Neuman, | Title: On Your Mark | 4/27/1957 | See Source »

...present, Annex students are permitted to associate, but not hold office, in University organizations...

Author: By George H. Watson, | Title: Full 'Cliffe Membership In Organizations Seen | 4/26/1957 | See Source »

...with some difficulty that we hold back the tears when we realize the tragic bravery of Josephine. Her cause is no doubt a lost one, but her efforts are truly heroic, for good old Josephine (our favorite whooping crane) has tried to make another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whoops... | 4/24/1957 | See Source »

...Wheeling will have the number one spot in tomorrow's lineup, followed by Bob Ornstein at two, James Bailey at three, captain Lou Klein at four, Alan Steinert at five, and Perry Driggs, Frank Dodge, or Warren Iliff will hold the sixth and seventh positions on the team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Golfers to Meet Amherst, Tufts In Triangular Match at South Hadley | 4/23/1957 | See Source »

Further compounding the confusion, high-spending consumers still hold a traditional moral attitude toward saving as a virtue and borrowing as an evil. That attitude, they think, is exactly the one held by bankers. Since people feel guilty about personal borrowing, they believe that the "typical" moralistic banker is likely to turn them down. Thus, they often turn to finance companies for "unworthy" borrowing, such as auto loans, instead of to banks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Awful Truth | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

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