Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House of Intellect, by Jacques Barzun. A thin, well-read line of intellectual heroes, says Columbia University's Barzun. must hold the past against artiness, scientism and coddled incompetents...
...three years, Ceylon's frail-looking Premier Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike has needed all his considerable skill at compromise to hold together his United Front coalition. Chief threat: the unsettling presence in his Cabinet of pro-Communist Food and Agriculture Minister Philip Gunawardena...
...last year: "You don't reach retirement age in one of those things." Even the toughest drivers find the Indianapolis toughest of all. Johnny Parsons, the 1950 winner, retired this month with the explanation: "When you get down to the end of those straightaways and can't hold your foot down any more, it's time to quit...
...press lord of Montana, owning seven dailies* in five of the state's major cities. Last week Anaconda's Board Chairman Clyde Weed announced that the company aimed to sell all seven papers. Behind the decision is the story of how Anaconda bought newspapers to consolidate its hold on Montana, came to discover that they were doing the company more harm than good...
...They can also find a host of critics. Many critics charge that the funds, along with other institutional buyers, have needled the roaring bull market to artificial highs, that their constant buying, chiefly of blue chips, has helped create the present shortage of stocks. The funds' answer: they hold only 3.4% of all stock on the New York Stock Exchange, and do not hoard it; they turn their shares over faster than the exchange as a whole...