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Word: holdes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your well-cropped, well-colored cuts and well-cropped, well-colored story about Nate's Air Force can hardly be found at fault in its facts . . . However much the Air Force, in its so-called Year I, may hope to hold onto its skilled personnel in larger numbers, it faces a single, simple, unchanging attitude toward re-enlistment in its enlisted ranks-freedom v. institutionalism. Civil life or the same old saluting crud for another four years. We are the freest enlisted men in the world-and even among U.S. services. But . . . not quite free enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 1, 1954 | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...which he is a leader. In his feud with home-state Republicans, Langer used to get considerable help from his close political friend, President Truman. He now wants to use his position as head of the Judiciary Committee to force the Republican Administration to give him a tight hold on all federal patronage in North Dakota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bilbo of the North | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...Engineers have not beaten the Crimson in recent years and hold an unpromising 2 and 6 record. Since the varsity has won half its meets, this one should be just a warm-up for Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Will Wrestle M.I.T. This Afternoon | 2/27/1954 | See Source »

...agreement is built on the principle that the academic authorities should control athletics. The pact, in effect, sets up the Ivy Group as the strong-hold of amateurism in sports...

Author: By Steven C. Swett, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 2/26/1954 | See Source »

Thus, although perspective was an important technical discovery, it opened up no now dimensions of reality for man, he added. Indeed, daVinei's recommendation that the painter's job is to hold the mirror up to nature--to create a visual illusion of reality--led directly to the later stultification of European...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Read Belittles Role of Renaissance In Growth of Man's Consciousness | 2/26/1954 | See Source »

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