Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Langdon. B. Gilkey '40 and David S. Burt '40 entered the finals of the University tournament yesterday as the seedings hold true to form. Hurt defeated for the right to meet Gilkey who had already entered the finals by his victory over Al Dickinson...
Bingham and the others will speak next Tuesday morning, the opening day of the paper's eighth annual forum in the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. The room will hold nearly 5,000, and all the speeches will be broadcast over a national hookup...
...cavalry which had completed a 200-mile cross-country drive. Last month the Japanese command boasted that Hankow would be taken by October 1. Last week Chinese resistance had so stiffened that few neutral observers believed the city could be occupied before next month, some believed the Chinese could hold out until the year...
This ancient body (founded in 1562), devoted to the spread of religious teaching, did not reach the U. S. until 1903, did not hold annual meetings in the U. S. until four years ago. Last week 5,000 Catholics gathered in Hartford, Conn, for the Confraternity's Catechetical Congress - so called because catechetical is the adjectival form of catechism, which means teaching. At the Congress were introduced two new aids to Catholic teaching: a revised catechism, a gospel newly put into English...
...stage, and the nightmarish confusion in which the whole thing takes place is something new in Hemingway's writing. But it breaks off abruptly just as it gets well under way; Dorothy is such a dunce that an incredibly handsome actress would be necessary to explain her hold on Philip; big scenes-like the shooting of a captured German officer-take place off stage; and all Philip's long explanations of his reasons for aiding the Loyalists prove nothing except that he is not clear about it himself...