Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...child over three years old cannot hold his water, the child and the water should be examined." In most cases, the Lancet continued, the cause of bed-wetting is not physiological but psychological. "If the parent or guardian believes that (in Mr. Churchill's inspiring phrase) 'we have only to persevere to conquer,' she will communicate her belief. She will see also that the child has no fluids to drink after five o'clock, that he empties his bladder before he gets into bed, and that he is roused to void completely again at a later...
...large in London. While the press regarded the situation with "dismay," the Government stood adamant against opening schools in the danger areas, lest it encourage a wholesale return. It did, however, recall 200 teachers to London, sent them out to round up youngsters in the streets and hold impromptu classes on sandbags, in church crypts, in basements...
Three things now hold up new investment in utility plant: 1) many systems have poor capital structures and weak earnings records which make it hard for them to raise capital; 2) no one knows yet for sure when or if Government competition will end; 3) and nobody knows either what sort of territorial integration (under the Public Utility Holding Company Act) may eventually coordinate the sprawling structures of many holding, companies...
Members of the Prime Minister's house hold "revealed" to the United Press that when Neville Chamberlain is tuckered out after a hard day at the office, he relaxes by crooning Negro spirituals in a Birmingham baritone...
Twelve Yardlings were named last night to the 1943 Union Committee, which will hold Freshman dances, run inter-dormitory athletics, sponsor lectures in the Union, and in general run the class's affairs until June...