Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pick over the factory sweepings, salvage thousands of tiny nuts, washers and screws that fell to the floor below its B-47 production line. On the record, handicapped workers are pulling their own weight in U.S. industry, and there are millions more who are willing and able to hold down good jobs...
Among the other passengers is a half-caste rebel leader whose troops hold up the train, at which point he begins to work his sweet, if greasy, will upon Miss Dietrich and her Oriental business colleague, Anna May Wong. Miss Dietrich's trade name is "Shanghai Lily," indicating what sort of business...
...College had 15.3 out of every thousand college students in the country, but only 0.5 per thousand in 1945. In the last decade, however, the number has risen to 1.9 in 1950 and 2.2 in 1955. In the last, possibly portentous of the College's continuing to hold an increasing share of the nation's college candidates...
...fill the boat Wilde hopes will stop Tech this Saturday. But in spite of the varsity's rag-taggle composition and Tech's veterans, stroke Larry Cabot has led the Crimson through creditable and improving time trials. Though only a sophomore, Cabot is a skilled oarsmen and can hold a high stroke with clock-like precision...
...controversy looked like a "scandal" to Robert Cardinal Bellarmine, then the church's chief theologian. The rebuke which Galileo received at the hands of Bellarmine's Holy Office in 1616 (year of the deaths of Shakespeare and Cervantes) was mild. In sum, he was ordered not to "hold or defend" the proposition that the earth revolved around the sun. Galileo did not interpret this as a gag order, and over the next eight years cautiously busied himself, in letters and pamphlets, with thinly disguised proselytizing for the Copernican view...