Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French authorities told Serge to leave the country because of his shady financial transactions. Serge had another version: Premier Pierre Laval, he said, suspected Rubinstein of dallying with his mistress, a French marquise, and deported him in a fit of jealousy. Two years before his expulsion, he had got hold of operating control of the Chosen Corp., a British company which owned some Korean gold mines. It was a typically slippery operation. The company was in the midst of a management scandal (the director ultimately went off to Wormwood Scrubs prison), and the stock was momentarily cheap. Before Serge made...
...humanities hold a central position in liberal education. In a sense, all subjects deserve a place in liberal curriculum only as they partake in at least some degrees of the goal of humane scholarship. But a college in which the studies traditionally called the humanities are weak runs the risk of being less liberal than it should; for our full humanity is best quickened and developed through imaginative grasp of the subtler experiences of individuals as revealed through arts and letters...
...Harvard, Eze has had to spend much of his time studying; anyone in pursuit of two advanced degrees at once has little difficulty in keeping busy, he finds. But Eze, and a number of his former associates in William James look back fondly to a party which they hold one fall just before examinations...
...done without his sophomores. Because he had so many of them--players like Ike Canty, Phil Haughey, Dick Hurley, Bob Hastings, Ron Barnett, Neil Muncaster, Bob Dolven, and Lou Lowenfels--he has made it a real achievement just to get a uniform to wear at the game. Even the hold-over veterans, Captain Roger Bulger, Harry Sacks, Dick Manning, have found it difficult to keep the sophomores off the floor...
During the 1950 off-year election campaign, Chicago Sun-Times Reporter Ray Brennan got hold of a fine exclusive story. He reported the secret testimony before the Kefauver crime committee of Chicago's Democratic candidate for Cook County sheriff, "Tubbo" ("richest cop in the world") Gilbert. Largely as a result of Brennan's story, Gilbert and the entire Cook County Democratic machine were sunk on election day. But a federal grand jury indicted Brennan for impersonating a federal employee to get the secret testimony. Reporter Brennan won the first round of his case when the Government dropped...