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Word: holdes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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M.I.T. will probably furnish the main opposition for the varsity, as the Terrier squad lacks depth. The Engineers hold an apparent advantage over the Crimson, having had an additional week of practice and one meet already this year. They lost to Brown, but defeated Tufts in a triangular meet last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Harriers Face M.I.T., B.U. In Opening Meet | 10/5/1956 | See Source »

...order to appear less objectionable to students. "If I became known as some radical character," Daland says, "then I would reduce my usefulness to the University." Students at Alabama are unprepared to hear that Negroes are in no way inferior to white people. Their whole background and immediate environment hold that Negroes are inferior. Any professor who taught an undisguised theory of equality would immediately be relegated to the lunatic fringe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Moderation' Fails at U. of Alabama | 10/3/1956 | See Source »

...limited, and their preservation requires a careful, foresighted use of them. For hydro-electrical potential and public lands, for wildlife and fisheries management, for all the resources under the public domain, the America of tomorrow requires that we turn our backs on the wasteful ways of today, that we hold firm to what remains and use it wisely in the years to come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ike, McKay and the Giveaway | 10/2/1956 | See Source »

...hearings, then charged that two of the men arrested by Cosgrove were on the city payroll. City Manager John J. Curry answered by saying the two unnamed gamblers had worked for the city, one in the Public Works Department, the other as a temporary employee, but they no longer hold their jobs...

Author: By Blaise G. A. pasztory, | Title: Police Chief Contradicted By Subordinate at Council | 10/2/1956 | See Source »

Actually, buying the Suez Canal Company's shares now makes excellent sense to speculators. Whatever happens to its canal holdings, the company possesses a shrewd management and impressive assets outside Egypt. Long before Nasser took over, the company had been preparing to get out. Anticipating the end of the 99-year concession in 1968, it bought back more than half the original shares for redemption, paying off in cash and new limited-dividend shares. The company has also been diversifying into foreign investments, today holds shares in some 700 corporations all over the world, with an estimated book value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Out of the Canal | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

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