Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help the course reduction program. While students pleaded "Pass me, please!" on their blue books, the draft daily carried away its share of tutors. Pressure was on to get a degree and get it quick. As it became increasingly difficult to patch the system with temporary measures, and to hold uniform control, the Faculty voted in 1942 to give the power of course reduction to the individual departments by allowing credit for tutorial...
...line of the play, the film projects the drama on an infinitely broader canvas, interpolating speeches with artful flashbacks. As a result, Miss Julie dispels much of the tautness and unity of the play and frequently accentuates its dated melodrama. Whether a less imaginative transcription of Miss Julie would hold much interest for modern audiences is questionable, however. The place of Strindberg's picture of tormented souls in a transitional society is more secure in theatre history than in theatre repertoire. If, therefore, the film seems to overburden the story and subordinate it to technical artistry, there is some justification...
...French did not want to lose a capital, however unimportant. They flew in reinforcements, swept the outskirt junglebrush to clear their field of fire, and borrowed the royal elephants to haul wood for their entrenchments. The French believed they could hold Luang Prabang, but the Communists had already loped 100 miles toward the city from their start line-a headline that went round the world. Men died in these skirmishes, but the fact remains that Indo-China is not primarily a real-estate war. So far, Navarre has denied the Communists what they most want-the rice-rich delta around...
...meticulously to try to find out what was wrong. They seemed to find nothing organically amiss, attributed his illness basically to age and overwork. At week's end, the Pope seemed improved. Though still very weak, he was taking more food, it was announced, was able to hold hour-long conferences with top Vatican officials...
...that are so popular with space illustrators. In the vacuum on the moon, the upward pressure of their interior atmospheres would be enormous. A domed "tent" only 10 ft. in diameter would pull against its moorings with a force of 50 tons. If big enough (100 ft. across) to hold a fair-sized habitation, its upward pull would be 5,000 tons, and its structure would have to be heavy. Domes, Sowerby thinks, should be kept small, and the bulk of the city should be underground, to stay...