Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was yet another view, however, which enabled a witness to hold his moral convictions about incriminating others without using the Fifth Amendment. First used before the Jenner Committee by Irving Goldman, who teaches anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College, it can best be called "calculated contempt." To Goldman and his counsel, Arthur Garfield Hays, the best way to reconcile one's conscience without harming his college was speaking openly about personal activities, refusing to testify about others...
...each day. Indeed, the English influence was heavy on the College all year: Gilbert Murray was giving the Norton lectures, the Cambridge debaters created a sensation with their winning arguments for government regulation (F. W. Lorentzen was one-third of the Harvard team), the tutorial system was just taking hold, and reading periods patterend on Oxford's were instituted for the first time at any American university...
...Setting "reserve requirements," i.e., the proportion of cash reserves a bank is required to hold against its total deposits. The Fed can set reserves as low as 10%, on the average, which means banks can lend $10 for each $1 on deposit. Or it can hike them to 20%, on the average, which means that banks can lend only $5 for each $1 on deposit...
...cylinder 300 S (about 190 h.p.). With their old-fashioned bodies, they resemble 1936, and older, U.S. cars. Their high-geared steering, a feature of road racers, is as hard as a truck's but very responsive, and they are famed for the way they hold the road. Each model has such features as self-lubrication (at the press of a foot pedal), independent suspension of all four wheels, handwork on such parts as polished wood dashboards and door frames. Daimler-Benz sticks stubbornly to heavy, solid steel, though many other makers have switched to lighter frames. Says Chief...
...ranking prelate, hearing of the sisters' work, observed: "Every country has its own traditions and customs. Here we preach the word of God and help the poor as best we can, but in different ways. Our nuns remain cloistered in their convents and our priests are supposed to hold the prestige of their mission high, as befits ministers of God. Those girls will learn the hard way, I fear...