Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oxford, entering the field for the first time, is expected to sweep all the other five entrants before it. But the Crimson should be able to hold its own against its old opponents, Yale, Dartmouth, M.I.T., and the Bermuda home teams...
...Hold! There is a break! Then, as suddenly, as mysteriously as it came, it is over. A strange silence engulfs the city, broken only by the infrequent whimpering of a shattered milliner. Peace descends, the western sky assumes the soft reds and blues of a New England sunset, and the first calm note of the angelus rings out over the countryside. Lights are beginning to flicker and glow in dormer windows. Let us take our leave now, softly, quietly...
...everything is different. A girl can't hold up her head unless is is caparisoned in a new and striking hairstyle. Stand on any street corner and chalk up the different styles that march, prance, mince, amble by. Bob follows shingle, and weave follows bob; hair is piled up, tossed down and trampled on, pinned with pins, carefully disciplined or just plain rampant. If any two similar styles walk by you know they belong to twins...
...milkmaid arrange her silken tresses into the wonted braids. Her sister in the big city is likewise gripped by the fever of change. On all sides the idols of the past are falling--even the neo-underbrush, once so secure, is threatened. No one knows what the future may hold...
Current rumors hold that the new publicity for the city will read, "Cambridge garbage is better than ever...