Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another of the University's most pressing problems, according to Pusey, has come about through the tremendous development of the biochemical sciences. The Mallinckrodt Laboratories can no longer hold the University's chemical research, and he estimated that $2 million would be necessary to construct adequate facilities...
...some farm state congressional Republicans were almost as keyed up. The Democrats kept studying the charts of the 1948 elections, in which Harry Truman carried four Republican farm states (Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa) plus border Missouri. They figured that if-just if-they could catch all five, hold the South plus all that Stevenson won in 1952, they could squeak in to victory next November...
...case of burley tobacco has a different ending but the same moral. In 1954, when Congress voted flexible supports for "basic crops," supports for burley were left at 90% of parity. To hold production down, acreage had to be cut and cut. By last year more than 60% of the burley tobacco farms in the U.S. were down to the minimum allowed by the law, one-half of one acre, a plot so small that it can hardly be farmed efficiently. Assistant U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz has a label for the process: "rationing poverty...
Lida will replace Herbert Dieckmann, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, present holder of the post. Both Dieckmann and Lida hold an honorary Master of Arts degree from the University...
...love of liberty and their good sense, makes me believe that their fits of tantrum about disloyalty among out fellow-citizens will end long before 1970," states Chafee in his forthcoming book, The Blessings of Liberty. "The blessings of liberty, though weakened, are ours if we want them, to hold and make strong. The flag still flies, and the city has not yet fallen...