Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patient is a woman, the profession of her husband. For women, two important points already arise. First as to her age. If at all possible, an experienced patient will avoid giving an age between 40 and 60, for it is part of the acknowledged armory of modern medicine to hold the climacteric responsible for all complaints arising in this period of a woman's life. The absence of specific symptoms is immaterial...Every complaint from toothache to corns may be explained by ovarian deficiency, and thus held to be merely functional-a consideration which delights the doctor...
...with three mechanical unions prevented the paper from coming back on the streets immediately after settling its Guild strike.) Its rival, Hearst's Post-Intelligencer (circ. 184,301) picked up close to 50,000 readers and more ads than it could print, but the Times confidently expects to hold its circulation lead. Striking editorial staffers found temporary jobs, from unloading bananas and canned salmon on the city's docks to doing cleanup jobs for the park department. Said Federal Mediator Barney Toner: "Negotiators from both sides never raised their voices and debated issues as quietly and carefully...
...Victorian age as it is prized today. In the picture opposite, the baby's burgeoning life subsides to bedtime weariness. Relaxed and perfectly possessive, the child clasps its mother's chin. The mother is peaceful too, but stiff in her tight bodice, and careful to hold her baby securely until it sleeps...
...reveals that...any real disagreement on fundamental issues is never tolerated...A teacher may read dozens of such journals without finding a single article which questions the validity of pragmatic principles." As a result, says Woodring, today's teachers seldom realize what a distorted set of principles they hold. Items...
...Slotkin has made a habit of buying up rivals. He started with a simple principle: the best way to sell frankfurters was to make their contents a known quantity-pure beef-and to package them under a known brand name. This idea soon gave him a commanding hold on the New York hot-dog market. By 1929, hungry for expansion, he was ready to move into Chicago, where big Allied Packers was on the "block...