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Word: holding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maurin is useful even if one rejects all the essays. They inform both the extreme Right and the extreme Left of the views which men and women in the midway hold concerning what they want or think they want from a new social order. Information of that sort is now becoming increasingly hard to get wholesale...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 11/2/1937 | See Source »

...quickest reaction with .26. Ulen also is the fastest between light numbers one and two (13 feet) with .74 of a second. Six men are tied for the fifteen feet between lights two and three, doing it in .67 of a second. Al Hanlon and Charles Smith '40 hold the best time for the next 15 feet--.57 of a second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Coach Employs "Electric Eye" to Translate Sprinters Onto Paper; Able to Check on Runner's Speed Acceleration | 11/2/1937 | See Source »

...this scheme sufficiently advanced for the London Committee to be all smiles and cordiality for the first time in months, only Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky darkling, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told Britain's newly-met House of Commons: 1) That he believes the "idea" that Italy intends to hold the Balearic Islands after the Spanish war is over to be "unfounded"; 2) That he accepts "as being given in good faith" Italian assurances that Italy has "no territorial or strategic or even economic designs on Spain." Pointing to Premier Mussolini's consent to adopt the British scheme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Scheme | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

Clara Mortensen was defending the "championship" which she claims to hold among the 60 women professionals now adays engaged in trying to revive what was once a standard U. S. sport. In the days of the great Cora Livingstone (now the wife of Boston's Promoter Paul Bowser), "lady wrestlers" wore black tights and spangled leotards, appeared regularly in urban variety houses and the Police Gazette. Squarejawed, blonde Wrestler Mortensen does neither. Now 21, she has been a professional wrestler off & on since she was seven, when her father, who used to wrestle in his native Denmark, matched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Strong Sister | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...crucial business of launching new models, to an equally important segment of the automobile industry-sales and distribution-it is only the beginning. Some 515,000 people are engaged in making automobiles and parts, probably twice that many selling and servicing them. After this week, when carmakers have finished holding their show in Manhattan, car-sellers will hold lesser shows of their own in 44 other U. S. cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: January First | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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