Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...developed character and physical fitness, its opponents that it bred militarism. The Legion and some civic & fraternal organizations lined up behind R. O. T. C., labor unions and churches lined up against it. The Board of Education lined up on the fence, finally asked the City Council to hold a city-wide referendum...
...became a recessive in the dominant metropolitan order, built on monopoly capitalism, credit finance, pecuniary prestige and the national culture of national advertising. "No human eye," says Author Mumford, "can take in this metropolitan mass at a glance. No single gathering place except the totality of its streets can hold all its citizens. No human mind can comprehend more than a fragment of the complex and minutely specialized activities of its citizens. There is a special name for power when it is concentrated on such a scale: it is called impotence." One proof of impotence is that almost every step...
...Uhler admitted that there might be a slight error in the last digit of one of his values but he had checked and rechecked to hold the possible error to a minimum. "Even a single false digit," said he, "in the published value of a basic constant can cause incalculable loss of time and energy...
...asked consideration, much less mercy, for himself. With unbroken fortitude he has endured the shattering fall from his high estate and faced the pitiless publicity, the universal stares, the ceaseless interrogation with calm, with fidelity to the duty of the moment and with the knowledge that life can hold no other purpose for him but now and always to labor to repair the wrong which he has done...
...something of a tycoon, Frank Howell decided to organize other Bronzeville bigwigs, hold a two-day Exposition of Negro Business for the double purpose of spurring Negro business and arranging a program to fight "fleecing" by whites. So last week to the shabby 8th Regiment Armory trooped no less than 110,000 Negroes to watch fashion shows, finger fancy caskets, see demonstrations of pressing the kink out of Negro hair, listen to church choirs and hot bands, munch free handouts or purchase raffle tickets from the 75 booths. No Negro gathering is complete without Joe Louis...