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Word: holdes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vote. Therefore we must have a candidate who not only will carry our banner but will also appeal to the great strength of the independent voters and also to the Democrats who are sick & tired of the present national Administration ... If Dwight Eisenhower's extraordinary hold on the American people were solely due to the fact that he has a warm personality and a magnetic bearing, we might have justifiable reservations . . . But his hold on American opinion cannot, I think, be attributed to these personal traits-to what was described last night as glamour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Jolt for a Bandwagon | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...farther along a student had progressed in his education, the more he thought football was over-emphasized. Seventy-three percent of the graduate students polled felt there was too much stress on football, while only 43 percent of the freshman hold this opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Countrywide Poll Says Students Believe Football Is Overstressed | 1/26/1952 | See Source »

...administration, which knows best. I hope the players try some lacrosse in April; it's a great conditioning game for football." Hickman concluded the interview by denying the rumor that his assistant Peahead Walker was quitting to resume his post at Wake Forest as head coach, a job he hold before coming to Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hickman Hints at Spring Drills Ban | 1/26/1952 | See Source »

...freshmen provided a happier note as Al Howe ran a strong anchor leg to hold off Yale's Henry Thresher and win, going away by 30 yards...

Author: By George S. Abrams, | Title: Yale Defeats Crimson Relay Teams; Berman Bows in 600 | 1/22/1952 | See Source »

Last week the city council did summarily dispose of the company's application for permission to build. But this time, many Oxonians doubted that the esthetic victory would hold. With Britain's steel so short, the company had a powerful argument against building a whole new plant in Cowley, and the Minister of Fuel and Power was almost sure to agree. Oxford's dreaming spires, said one gas company official last week, would just have to make the best of things: "I think the gasworks will be on its present site 25 and even 50 years from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Intolerable Intruder | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

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