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Word: holdes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emphasize other characteristics, how could we go about doing it?" is the stock answer she gives to all accusations that a change in standards has occurred. "It's impossible to judge from participation in extra-curricular activities, because at some schools, it is obligatory for every girl to hold office before she graduates so she can put it on her college record," Mrs. Eliot says. "We're not fooled by that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Must Sell Harvard Education in the Provinces | 12/1/1953 | See Source »

...Versions. There are two distinct Protestant versions of Christian hope. One of them is prevailingly held by European theologians, the other by those American theologians most actively associated with the World Council. The Europeans tend to be Biblically strict constructionist and socially pessimistic. They hold that things on this dreary earth will never really get better-despite all that Christians might like to do meanwhile-until Christ comes again to judge and sanctify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Whose Eschatology? | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...than a DC-3 transport, but its wing span is only 22 ft. 8 in., less than the span of a DC-3's tail. The wings themselves are short even for this penguinlike spread, because the fuselage has to be thick enough to hold the two jet engines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Flight Log | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...Expert. In Akron, Ohio, arrested for taking $20 from a woman, Walt Chermin told the court: "I wanted it as an excuse to have another date with her," added that he always felt it wise, in dealing with women, "to have something to hold over their heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 30, 1953 | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...Elis would certainly be dangerous. Harvard, of course, would field a team of stars. Hardy, Lowenstein, and Clasby would take their usual places in the backfield, and Coolidge would anchor the line. Cowles could be shifted to one end position; and there is, I believe, another eligible lineman to hold down the other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE-WAY RUN-OFF | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

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