Word: holdes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Since Jan. 4, similar scenes, with local variations, have been enacted at more than 450 private schools and junior colleges. Additional schools will hold contests between now and Feb. 22. Shortly after that, many of you will take a more difficult version of the same test, when it appears in TIME as the News Quiz...
Public schools in the U.S. and Canada which use TIME as a text or classroom aid will hold their contests in May, when another Current Affairs Test is distributed to schools and colleges. In September, a shorter, 50-question Summer Review Test is offered to schools as a measure of how well the students have followed the news during their vacations...
...TIME was inviting schools and colleges to hold contests. We offered prizes for school and class leaders. Many of the schools which responded to the invitation that year (among them The Hill) are still holding the contests...
...Senate seats to be filled this year, 20 are held by Republicans and only 14 by Democrats, five of them, from the solid South. To win control (present lineup: 50 Democrats, 46 Republicans), the Republicans must hold all 20 of their contested seats, and take three seats from the Democrats. This means that they would have to win more seats than they did in the landslide...
G.O.P. Weak Points. But there are weak points in the Republican ranks, too. In Nevada, long-winded George ("Molly") Malone, who spoke more words on the Senate floor last year than any other member, will have to do some fast talking to hold his seat. His probable opponent: Alan Bible, a handsome Reno lawyer and protege of Democratic Senator Pat McCarran...