Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...museums have taken the wraps off their latest acquisitions, revealing summer surprises that rank high as novelties and hold their own as modern...
...killer. The dread was based more on hearsay than actual experience. Few men had ever been attacked by them; fewer still lived to tell the tale. Advice on what to do in the presence of a lurking shark was flatly contradictory: one school held that the swimmer should hold still and keep quiet; the other said churn wildly and shout. During World War II thousands of seamen and downed airmen came within reach of the shark's sinister jaws. With air traffic over open water becoming heavier every day, the U.S. Air University painstakingly collected the reports of survivors...
...exist. An explanation is relatively easy for those cosmologists who believe the universe was formed in a vast, single explosion. "The universe," explains Professor Frisch,"must have been very dense at first, and annihilation would have weeded out all but one kind of matter." But for those who hold that matter is being created continuously in space between the galaxies, the antiproton is more of a problem. Their theory will have to explain, says Professor Frisch, why only one kind of matter is being created...
...almost 10% better than its piston-engined Constellations. Total operating costs are $1.57 per mile v. $2.16 for the Connies. But the initial costs of getting the new Viscounts into service actually cost Capital a $1,300,000 deficit in 1956's first quarter, will probably hold down profits this year, even though operating revenues were up to $11.9 million for an overall 13% jump over...
...Saul, chosen by God, through a reluctant Samuel, to expel the Philistines and elevate Israel to "a nation among nations." Though young King Saul won peace and freedom for his countrymen, he was never able to win Samuel's trust or break the old prophet's hold upon a primitive, God-haunted people The story of the conflict between king and kingmaker, man and God, has been dimmed by divergent accounts in the Old Testament. In Shirley Watkins' novel the struggle rings out as clearly as the clash of ax on armor...