Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard University is a fitting tribute to a young man who has won distinction as a poet and teacher. At the same time it places upon him the heavy responsibility of following in the footsteps of John Quincy Adams--the first to hold this post --and, in more recent times, of Adams Sherman Hill, Le Baron Russell Briggs and Charles Townsend Copeland...
...present version Dame May Whitty is the psychic—a term which is itself a hallowed souvenir—who tries to solve a murder by making the twelve possible suspects hold hands in the dark. Things look bad for Nell O'Neill (Madge Evans) when John Wales (Henry Daniell) is stabbed at the seance, but clear up when, at the next psychic session, Dick Crosby (Thomas Beck) uses lampblack to prove that naughty Dr. Mason (Charles Trowbridge) was not holding hands. The Thirteenth Chair still saves a septuagenarian shiver for the moment when Madame La Grange reveals the murder knife stuck...
...must be concerned with liberty abroad, but liberty begins at home. "We must hold tight to legal prescriptions and procedures, trust only to leaders committed by instinct and belief to the defense of civil liberties, and deal summarily with those who band together to destroy them. We must guard zealously the rights of our scholars and teachers to carry forward the stream of civilized thought . . . and protect the rights of assembly and speech and the freedom of the press...
...vivid memories of Robert House Colley is that of ripping off rapid-fire calculations for Battery A of the 307th Field Artillery during the battle of St. Mihiel, standing behind some ruins with rain pouring down on his maps and tissue paper tracers while a private tried ineffectually to hold a pup tent over his head. Second Lieutenant Colley retained his passion for mathematics, returned from the War to put it at the service of finance in the treasurer's office of Philadelphia's Atlantic Refining Co. Last week, on the retirement of William Mitchell Irish, shy, precise...
Terminating one of the most active seasons of its existence, Phillips Brooks House will hold its annual dinner today for nearly 200 social service workers and University officials...