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Word: holdes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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While all schemes take it for granted that farmers cannot hold their own in the free market, they have all ignored the basic cause; there are too many farmers in the United States. A revolution in farming techniques has meant that fewer farmers can grow more than enough food to fill American stomachs. Competition with Canada, Australia, and Argentina has made the government unable to trade excess food in foreign markets except at prices well below parity. In business, this pair of events would force migration to other industries. But farmers have tenaciously clung to their homesteads, counting on governmental...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How To Get Them Off The Farm | 2/19/1953 | See Source »

...such a committee, pledged and capable to screen Communists from employment. Its name is the Harvard Corporation, and it consists of seven alumni whose sound economics not even Mr. Robertson would question. He also ignores the fact that professors he calls "collectivist" have always been quite happy to hold their views up for public scrutiny in books and speeches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Robertson's Fund | 2/18/1953 | See Source »

Charlie Ufford and Dave Watts, both undefeated to date, will hold down the top two positions, as usual. Larry Brownell is now third, Hadden Tomes fourth, and Bill Wister fifth. Wister, who wasn't in the first nine at the beginning of the season, is easily the most improved player on the squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Team Host to Weak Trinity Today | 2/18/1953 | See Source »

...applause we have witnessed warrant a more effective system of expressing our loyal support. Basketball is the nation's biggest spectator sport and it is time that we brought our team up to the standards that Harvard has maintained in other sports, standards which any large university ought to hold to realize its athletic prestige...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR GIRL CHEERLEADERS | 2/17/1953 | See Source »

Time, too, was running out on Hurst. With the next Council meeting scheduled for March 2, there would not have been time enough to hold a College-wide referendum and present it to the Faculty Committee on Athletics before the end of the basketball season on March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Last Try for 'Cliffe Cheer Unit Quashed | 2/17/1953 | See Source »

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