Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work with pencil, paper, Secretary Morgenthau, Budget Director Bell, Deputy Relief Administrator Aubrey Williams. This week he sent a special message to Congress asking for $1,500,000,000 to carry next year's relief burden, and acknowledging that his midwinter estimates of fiscal position would no longer hold up because income taxes and other revenue had fallen $604,000,000 under expectations. He now foresaw a deficit on June 30 of $2,557,000,000, boosting the national debt to a peak of $35,500,000,000. With revenue estimates for next year revised downward, the President contemplated...
...peasants and city workers to push the fierce drive few miles to the northwest of Teruel, General Franco's powerful garrison in eastern Spain, 150 miles from Madrid. Again and again the Leftists, backed by war planes, thrust forward in an effort to weaken General Franco's hold in that critical sector lest he succeed in wrecking their communications between Valencia and Barcelona...
...prior, Good Neighbor Roosevelt's most obstreperous neighbor, Cuba's Army Chief and Strong Man, Colonel Fulgencio Batista, had dramatically tightened his hold on the island which he now rules. Returning from a long week end in Camagüey Province to his gleaming, refurbished Camp Columbia ten miles outside Havana, Boss Batista met his Capitol lieutenants to hear details of how the lower house of Cuba's 16th Congress was staging a legislative "standup" strike in the corridors outside their chamber. For a full week they had refused to take their seats in number sufficient...
Yogins have eight different ways of breathing. Most effective posture for breathing is the lotus. One sits crosslegged, spine and head erect, hands crossed palm-upward on the lap, eyes focused either at the tip or the root of the nose. Expert yogins hold their breath four times as long as it takes them to inhale, and take the equivalent of two inhalation periods to exhale. Thus their breathing ratio is 1:4:2. They inhale once every two minutes. Beginners, advises Dr. Behanan, had better use at 1:2:2 rhythm, to prevent dizziness and anoxemia...
...ruling, which has become antiquated by changing conditions provided that: "No student, who in any course, without the consent of the instructor, sells lecture notes or holds public reviews (known as 'seminars') immediately before the examinations, may hold any scholarship or fellowship". For many years a copy of this has been sent to all scholarship recipients...