Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Student Council and the representatives of the Swimming Team decided last night to hold over until next year action on the Team's ambition to join the ranks of major sports, certainly they were making a grave mistake for the cause of swimming in the College. For either swimming has got a case in its favor, or it has not got a case, but as dexterous a feat of sidestepping and punchpulling as was shown last night will scarcely convince the College that there is anything to be said in the natators' favor...
...taken a man into its fold, whose abilities were not appreciated in a country that has rejected all things intellectual and cultural. So long as the leading universities in this country continue to uphold the traditions of free speech and unrestricted academic thinking, hysterical dictatorships and mob psychology will hold little danger for America...
Disorganized because of illness, the third Varsity crew will hold an informal race with the Union Boat Club over the mile and three quarters course in the basin this afternoon...
...achieved a surprise, catching them while the U. S. Fleet was theoretically in California ports. Time-eight days-was the essence of the problem. If the Island's defense force of small vessels, 400 planes, 20,000 soldiers and coast defense guns, all concentrated on Oahu, could hold off the attackers for eight days, the U. S. Fleet would have time to arrive from the continent. If the attackers could land troops, capture the island of Oahu and the great naval station of Pearl Harbor in less than eight days the fleet from the mainland would arrive too late...
...German members of the B'nai B'rith had "engaged in Communistic propaganda." For years B'nai B'rith expenditures in Germany have averaged a million marks a year. Three weeks ago an order was issued forbidding Jewish organizations of any sort to hold any meetings whatever for 60 days. So stringent was this rule that if so many as five Jews should meet over a herring in a public cafe they might be liable to arrest...