Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clubs and organizations about to have elections of officers are reminded that they should submit a list of candidates to the Dean's Office in order to avoid the election of men already on probation to offices which they will not be allowed to hold...
Greater novelists might well admire Rebecca's craftsmanship. Again & again the reader is led with seeming casualness to the edge of a precipice of suspense. A competent craftsman, Author du Maurier manages to make her readers hold their breaths for 457 pages...
SCENE ONE. Have your tickets out. Please hold your own tickets. Up to your left. No, this is section 10. You'll have to go to the entrance your ticket calls for. What's that? Double M. Q coming. Z coming. Up to your left, please. Don't block the aisle. Keep moving, please. Fourth and fifth seats in. Up in the colonnade, please. . . . The afternoon had scarcely begun, but his throat was raw and dry already. Too many cigarettes and those sawdust sandwiches were responsible for that. Hell of a thing anyhow--having to usher on the Dartmouth side...
Both the regular guards are now engaged in stiff fights to retain their starting posts as the fast improving Dick Phister is close to displacing Endy Peabody and Don Wilson is threatening Dick Row's hold on the other guard post...
While George Kahn and Tom Johnson seemed permanent fixtures on the flank a week ago, Bill parsons is now very much in the fight for an end positives. And the fight continues between Julia Simmons and Tom Gardner at right tackle, as Vern Miller tightens his hold at left tackle...