Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...churn my dear Grandmother had Was made of cedar wood, And many a good old fashioned rub Of soap and sand had stood. The hoops that bound it were of brass, And shone like burnished gold. Five gallons too of cream or milk, That good old churn would hold. Ker Chunk, Ker Chunk...
...seem to Moscow that Tokyo's forces are overextended. In a stiff note this week Moscow explicitly rejected Japanese charges that Chinese planes disguised as Japanese were going to bomb the Soviet Embassy at Nanking, warned that if it is bombed under any circumstances the Soviet Union will hold Tokyo "responsible...
Next week, the Commission will hold first meetings of seventeen other courses in nearly every broad field of university study, including astronomy, American Literature, Shakespeare, English composition, elementary Psychology, German, operatic and symphonic music, modern painting, America economic history, and the development of the American constitution...
...Gray, who entered every science course open to freshmen and after only a year's study was removed from college by a severe attack of malaria. Afterwards he became a newspaper reporter, and although he took time out to finish his education at Harvard, he continued to hold jobs in newspaper offices and publishing houses. Seven years ago he published his first scientific article in the Atlantic Monthly. Today, a small, ruddy, cheerful, white-haired man with a southwestern drawl he has a less effulgent reputation than any one of half-a-dozen British luminaries but he is probably...
...already been roughed in. His final task will be finding a suitable historical inscription. The 500-word history of the U. S. submitted by President Coolidge was edited so extensively by Sculptor Borglum that Mr. Coolidge withdrew it in a huff. ''Posterity," says Gutzon Borglum, "will hold me responsible for it, whether I write it or not, and I want it to be right...