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Word: holdes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debate of the resolution; "That this house thanks God for the Atlantic," was to have been transmitted live from Allston Burr Lecture Hall at 4 p.m. yesterday afternoon. Tentative plans have been made to hold the debate after the cable is repaired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cable Break, Radio Interference Foil Plan for Transatlantic Debate | 2/27/1959 | See Source »

...match, John Watkins pinned Art Landy of Amherst, using a body press with a reverse half-nelson, at 5:18. Watkins had to escape a dangerous situation before winning, as Landy almost pinned him with a leg and chancery hold. Crimson heavyweight Bob Wynne scored the other pin for the varsity, finishing off Ken Wood with a cradle hold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Win, 28-5, Over Amherst Team | 2/26/1959 | See Source »

Dartmouth tok over undisputed possession of first place Saturday night by downing Yale, 5 to 4. With a 6-0 record, the Big Green could well go all the way, but Harvard, with a 4-1-1 slate, still has a chance to hold onto the championship...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Crimson Sextet Triumphs Easily | 2/24/1959 | See Source »

...many parents can hardly live with it. Twisted into every position-so long as it is uncomfortable-teen-agers keep the busy signals going with deathless conversation: "What ya doin? Yeah. I saw him today. Yeah. I think he likes me. Wait'll I change ears. Whaat? Hold on till I get a glass of milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Voices Across the Land | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...that modern Rosinante, the jalopy with deciduous hubcaps. They migrate to Florida and defeat it, by the simple expedient of driving to the middle of a highway that has not been officially opened and therefore does not officially exist. As successful squatters, living on fish and cunning, the Kwimpers hold off waves of governmental agents, sociologists and gangsters intent on civilizing them. Writers have loved such types, from Shakespeare's Nym, Pistol and Bardolph, who defied Elizabethan order, to Hasek's Good Soldier Schweik, whose peasant idiocy proved smarter than the Austro-Hungarian monarchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dog's Best Friend | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

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