Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plan to Hold Reviews...
...have the nerve to hold up 'race' as a means of evaluating personality...
...visited in the past 20 years, buck-toothed Robert LeRoy Ripley announced another believe-it-or-not: he himself is now "more widely traveled than Marco Polo, Magellan, and any other human being that ever lived." In an article for the London News-Chronicle, "1939-What Does It Hold," H. G. Wells suggested a possible solution of the world's present ills: ". . . The immediate fate of hundreds of millions of people hangs upon the unchecked impulses of a mere handful of men. You could pack the whole lot of them into an ordinary aeroplane. It would be a tumultuous...
Members of the squad will hold runs from Hinton's room at five o'clock every afternoon beginning next Monday...
Attacked from behind and knocked down on the steps of the City Hall by a discharged WPAster suffering from delusions of persecution, New York's scrappy little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia grabbed his assailant's legs, got them in a scissors hold before police came to the rescue. The fracas over, he remarked: "That's nothing to some of the blows I've taken under the belt. ... It was fortunate for him that I was not facing...