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Word: holdes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adams House Music Society showed Wednesday evening that it is not hard to draw 250 or more people and hold them engrossed throughout two informal and informative hours of music taken from the 12th to the early 16th centuries. Such an event would have flabber-gasted the composers; most of the pieces were written for the private entertainment, either between dinner courses or postprandially, of small groups of nobility. Impresario John Hollander, a Junior Fellow, chose a representative group of thirty-six short pieces, mostly from the first volume of Professor Davison's rich Historical Anthology of Music...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Adams House Musical Society | 2/18/1955 | See Source »

Last week the House Committee voted strongly to hold the annual opera April 30 when other Houses plan closed dances and to have a quadrangle dance later in the spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell House Students Circulate Petition To Reschedule Opera, Hold Closed Dance | 2/17/1955 | See Source »

...President's position came in marked contrast to earlier statements within the week from Yale and Princeton, which indicated both colleges will definitely hold the line against rising application figures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Has Reached No Policy on Expansion | 2/16/1955 | See Source »

...judicial ladder. In the case of Marie Besnard, accused poisoner of 13 relatives and friends, the juge d'instruction was a 26-year-old, newly promoted from clerk, who never visited the scene of the crime, sent out to the local grocery for canning jars to hold the viscera of the 13 alleged victims, and the jars ended so badly mixed up no one was sure which was which. But he kept Marie Besnard in jail for five years in "preventive detention.'' The 28-year-old juge d'instruction investigating young Brazilian playboy Jonsine da Silva...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Justice on Trial | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...since 1949, when their team won the National Invitation Tournament, have the Dons been able to hold up their heads in the national standing. After its N.I.T. success, the little (2,515 students) Jesuit university on Ignatian Heights lost Coach Pete Newell to the high-priced payroll of Michigan State, its champions were graduated and there was neither the money nor the organization to recruit replacements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dons on Defense | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

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