Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mailboxes will each be large enough to hold two small magazines in addition to normal mail. About $3,000 will be spent in making replacements in Matthews, Weld, Grays, Thayer, Hollis, Stoughton, and Holworthy. Installations should be completed in about six weeks...
...Filho has already shown a magnificent disregard for personal popularity. Determined to plug all possible dollar-exchange leaks, he angered federal Senators and Deputies by canceling their highly prized privilege of bringing a new car into the country every few years. Determined to hold down expenditures, he vetoed a bill to raise the pay of government doctors, stuck to his decision, though the doctors threatened a nationwide strike...
...Filho cannot be expected to cover much distance. "I do not expect my administration to go down as a milestone in the history of Brazil," he said recently. "I shall be fully satisfied if it is remembered as a bridge to better times." And if Café Filho can hold the world's biggest republic in the direction he has set, his administration will indeed deserve to be written down as a serviceable bridge along the road to Brazil's splendid tomorrow...
...Presbyterian Church. When he found that the church maintained a chapel for poorer parishioners who could not afford to rent pews in the church proper, Dr. Coffin closed the chapel, abolished the pew rents and merged the two congregations. He often took a portable organ to tenement districts to hold services for workers who came home at 2 a.m. "You do not go into religion head first," he once said. "You must go in heart first, and the head will go later...
...between the covers. Knowing this, publishers try to get their most handsome volumes into the stalls just before Christmas (about 25% of all trade sales in the U.S. are made in December). This season has already brought a flood of books not only good to read but good to hold and to look at. A sampling of the best...