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Word: holdes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps your story on General Ben Chidlaw and the Continental Air Defense Command [Dec. 20] will make the people of the U.S. a little more aware of what conditions and threats do exist . . . General Chidlaw's fence needs the efforts of every American to hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 10, 1955 | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...years may one day slide abruptly down the banister of the staircase their market has ascended by stages; some will make the climb again; others will slump forever at the bottom of the flight. It seems to me, however, that the big figures in 20th-century art will hold their lofty place or go still higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Prices Going Up | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...ankles The nine big rockets (total thrust 40,000 lbs.) fired all together, and the sled leaped down the rails, leaving behind ; huge cloud of smoke and overtaking a jetplane flying overhead. When the rocket: burned out. the sled was moving at 63 m.p.h. Then the water brake took hold throwing fountains of spray, and brough it to a rapid stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Salmon-Colored Blur | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...likeable figure in his circle seemed to be his sister Dorothy . . . So, recently, I at last got hold of Professor de Selincourt's fine edition of her Journals. They led me to his life of Dorothy Wordsworth, to Margoliouth's Wordsworth and Coleridge, back with a new eye to Hazlitt's My First Acquaintance with Poets, to De Quincey . . . The advantage of reading of this kind is that it takes you through life continually opening up new vistas of old country, slowly filling in a pattern of memories and emotions and associations such as no strictly formalized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pleasure on Parnassus | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

Embraceable You. In Montgomery, Ala., after Motorist Lawrence Colley explained that the reason he ran 40 ft. off the road, tore down a fence and rammed into a tree was that his girl was "holding me too tight" and "I couldn't hold her and the wheel, too," Judge John B. Scott dismissed a reckless driving charge, fined Colley only for driving without a license and without license plates, remarked, "I'm convinced it could have happened as he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 3, 1955 | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

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