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Word: holdes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Hong Kong to Basutoland to Trinidad. Also on the ledger, though written in invisible ink, is the abiding loyalty of its Dominions: Britain can count on them to help fight its battles and ward off its bankruptcy. An empire which, having lost so much, is still able to hold so much, still has some kind of toughness and durability in its diplomacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Diplomat | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

...possibly a few long-range 120s or 155s; U.S. Sabre jets have occasionally reported flak bursts above 30,000 ft.). He also has an even larger quantity of smaller guns, 37-and 20-mm. cannon and 12.7-mm. heavy machine guns. And he has radar-directed searchlights, which can hold a night-flying U.N. plane transfixed. The U.N. is using newfangled electronic jamming against the enemy radar on the big guns, but the fact is that most U.N. planes lost to ground fire are downed by the Reds' smaller, radarless guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Deadly Flak | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

Answered Dr. Davies, citing some graphic samples of Billy Graham's theology: "I do want Dr. Docherty, as a mature theologian, to justify on orthodox grounds the assertion by Dr. Billy Graham that the three persons of the Trinity hold regular conferences in heaven . . . Then I would like Dr. Docherty as a mature Biblical scholar ... to support from Scripture Dr. Graham's assertion that heaven is a 1,600-mile cube containing trees that produce a different kind of fruit each month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Oldtime Guilt | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

Chambers first turned to the Communist faith because "the revolutionary heart of communism ... is a simple conviction: It is necessary now to change the world. [The communists'] power is the power to hold convictions and to act upon them. Communists are that part of mankind which has recovered the power to live or die-to bear witness-for its faith . . . The communist vision is the vision of Man without God ... It is the vision of man's liberated mind, by the sole force of its rational intelligence, redirecting man's destiny and reorganizing man's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: I Was the Witness | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

Give & Take. Common stockholders of both lines will get one share in the new company, to be called Northwest-Capital Airlines, for each share they now hold (last price on both Capital and Northwest common: about $16). Northwest's preferred stock will become preferred stock in the new company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Made for Each Other | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

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