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Word: holding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plan to Hold Reviews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spaeth Elected to Head Freshman Union Committee | 1/13/1939 | See Source »

...have the nerve to hold up 'race' as a means of evaluating personality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: World Renowned Whites | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Members of the squad will hold runs from Hinton's room at five o'clock every afternoon beginning next Monday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKIERS TRAIN FOR SEASON IN CANADA | 1/6/1939 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 2, 1939 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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