Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moselle Department, along the German border, France planned to hold the biggest air-raid drill and preparedness test yet held. A "state of alert" for 36 hours was ordered...
...uncovered the unfortunate fact that his maternal great-grandfather had been born a Jew and that he himself was thus one-eighth Jewish. After some necessary promptings by old Nicholas Horthy, Regent of Hungary, Dr. Imredy resigned in a mood of self-immolation. Said he: "I held, and still hold, that legislation for the regulation of Jewish participation in the economic and cultural affairs of the country is a good thing for our fatherland. However, it is inconsistent that under such circumstances I should be identified with such legislation...
...insurance began to diverge from the Armstrong pattern of 33 years ago. The Armstrong Commission was primarily interested in insurance by itself; the Monopoly Committee is out to survey "the economic power inherent in the vast investment funds controlled by insurance companies. . . ." Today the largest 49 legal reserve companies hold 11% of the U. S. debt, 9.9% of all outstanding municipal bonds, 22.9% of all railroad bonds, 22% of the public utility debt, 15% of the industrial debt, 14.5% of urban mortgages. The Metropolitan alone now invests...
...give almost identical reasons for predicting a Chinese victory: the unprecedented national unity of the Chinese since the "remarriage" of the Kuomintang and the Communists, their unexpected bravery when properly led in battle, the success of the Communist-inspired, guerrilla tactics. They particularly make the point that Japan cannot hold more than the cities and lines of communication. She has occupied China, declares Mowrer, "about as effectively as a few swimmers can be said to 'occupy' a swimming pool...
...English soldiers had brought Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane. And he was fighting a man not born of a woman. But, despite the witches' warning which must have been ringing in his ears, Macbeth bellowed his own obituary: "Lay on, Macduff; and damn'd be him that first cries Hold, enough...