Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard Students who are not taking courses in American history will be urged to make use of the reading list. Special examinations will be hold for these students and prizes awarded to the top men. If this experiment in "optional examinations" is successful, the examinations may be opened later to those members of the public who care to find out how their study is progressing
...hours later, a hold-up man entered Harry Millstine's station, took the cash register's contents, tersely commanded the attendant to wait on a customer who happened to drive up. Mindful of what he had seen in "Radio Patrol," Millstine turned on his pump, the robber looming suspiciously over him. The pump began to click and the measuring bell had pinged once when Millstine suddenly wheeled around. Whoosh! went the acrid stream of gasoline, in good funnypaper style, squarely between the bandit's eyes. When he got them clear again, he was in jail...
...baby with an enlarged thymus is usually fat and flabby. Because the thymus presses upon the windpipe, gullet, large blood vessels and nerves, a thymic baby when excited will develop harsh breathing, turn blue, hold his breath, go into convulsions. Immediate remedy is an oxygen tent. X-rays of the infant's chest will reveal any enlargement of the thymus. X-ray irradiations will reduce an enlarged thymus. The complexions of thymic children after irradiation never seem to grow old, always remain peaches & cream...
Although it has not yet been definitely decided to hold the dance, the representatives of the House Committees who met last night have agreed to bring the matter up before their groups to get their reaction...
Tomorrow evening at 6:30 o'clock, the club will hold its annual banquet at the Harvard Club of Boston, with 130 members and guests expected. At this time, many will be elected to the group, and next year's officers will be chosen...