Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard hold either give up football or go out and get player so it can make a respectable showing," David F. Egan '23, Boston Record sports columnist said in an interview yesterday...
...Lemuel Shepherd is a stereotype of that curious (to civilian eyes) phenomenon, the modern American general. Like scores of his kind, Shepherd, in war or peace, must be part military man, part lobbyist, and part public-relations man-never too busy to make a speech, receive a Congressman or hold a press conference. He draws his strength from appropriations. His divisions are irrevocably involved not only with scientists and arsenals, but with shoe factories and the New York garment district...
...York's World-Telegram and Sun, Edward J. Mowery, 46, is known as a "singleminded" reporter who never lets go of a story once he gets hold of it. Six years ago Mowery got hold of the case of Louis Hoffner, a dime-store clerk sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a New York City tavern owner in a holdup. Mowery heard about the case as the result of another good piece of reporting; he had just dug up evidence to help free Bertram M. Campbell, a Wall Street customer's man convicted of forgery...
Each November, the 190 Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. hold a meeting in Washington, D.C., and afterward issue a joint statement. The statement is for practical purposes the voice of U.S. Roman Catholicism, commenting on the moral state of the nation and key-noting issues which the church believes deserve special attention in the coming year. This year's statement, released this week, explores the relations of church & state. Excerpts...
...constant dangers to the religious spirit in a country such as ours is the tendency to regard religion itself simply as the fruit of pious sentiment; or to hold, as the doctrinal basis of religion, what we may call the common factor in the religious opinions held by various groups; or to be content with the great religious truths of the natural order which can be known by unaided human reason. It is true that the founders of this country . . . gave as the religious foundation of their work only the truths of the natural order-belief...