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Word: holdes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that vain effort comes into a better position to understand the man who tried to paint the Sistine Madonna, and did." This is obviously an article of faith. You can never prove that it is true, because you can never measure such understanding. The Fine Arts Department does not hold to this faith; the Music department does not hold to this faith; the language departments are beginning to suspect that there just might be something in it, and believing this, they are beginning to experiment with the teaching of composition...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Creative Writing Comes of Age at Harvard | 2/19/1957 | See Source »

This game opened a crucial week for the varsity, which has league games against Penn and Cornell at home this weekend. If the team can get by Williams tonight, it should then be in good psychological shape to sweep the weekend contests and grab a firm hold on fifth place in the league race...

Author: By John A. Rava, | Title: Favored Crimson Quintet Plays at Williams Tonight | 2/19/1957 | See Source »

...sold well through the first four months of fiscal 1957, when sales rose 40.8% to a record 23,183. To turn a profit, said Vice President Roy D. Chapin Jr., "a reasonable increase in sales is all we need. We believe we can see that increase coming if we hold fast to our objectives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Rambler Rumble | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...captain have the regiment stand at attention as the corps commander rode by? Angrily, the colonel of the regiment replied that his men had been marching night and day for a week in an attempt to beat Bragg's Confederates to Louisville, and he "would not hold a dress parade at midnight for any damned fool living." Whereupon General Gilbert ordered the regiment's colors taken away. It was a mistake. The color sergeant loudly announced that he would kill the general if he so much as touched the colors. Another enlisted man shouldered forward, shouted: "Here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Feb. 18, 1957 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...good deal better than the score might suggest. In the opening minutes of the game, his defensemen were taken completely by surprise and were guilty of screening him on three of the goals. Half of Frankenburg's 43 saves came in the second period, when he performed brilliantly to hold the Crimson scoreless. Varsity goalie Captain Jim Bailey played well when he had to, and was especially effective in the third period...

Author: By James W. B. benkard, | Title: Varsity Sextet Swamps Green; Cleary Scores 3 in 8-3 Victory | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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