Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arabs, the British solution was a big victory. The extremist Arabs, followers of the exiled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el Husseini, were inclined to hold out for their original demands-complete Arab control of an independent Palestine-but the moderate Palestine Arabs and the Arabs from the other nations represented at the Round-Table meeting were disposed to accept the British plan. In Palestine, Arabs openly demonstrated their satisfaction with the British suggestions. Arab crowds took to the streets to celebrate "the reconquest of Palestine from the British." In the Holy Land this week bloody clashes among Jews...
...game that was the sloppiest seen on the New York floor this year, the Lions clung to third place in the League standings. The Blue and White had the fray their own way after the first five minutes, and Wes Fesler's men were never able to able to hold them...
...Crimson skaters took an early lead in the first period and managed to hold the Hanovermen to a two-all tie at the end of the second, but little Dave Walsh, Dartmouth forward, broke away twice in the last canto and cinched the game for the home team...
Known as one of the world's most eminent authorities in the field of ancient classics, Jaeger will hold one of the University Professorships recently created by President Conant by which the holder is free to make his own teaching and research schedules and may teach in any department of the University...
...journey's end, in the fertile Willamette Valley, battered mentally and physically, the survivors are tough-skinned men and women whose memories hold at least as much to forget as to remember...