Word: holding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looked for [Real Estate Man] Muktuk Marsdon-this big, tough man with a face like granite. And there he was, digging tears from the corners of his eyes and actually throwing them down on the floor-completely disgusted with himself, apparently, but unable, as the rest of us, to hold it back...
...Lieut. General George H. Brett, now retired. West Pointer Brett, 34, veteran jet pilot, had hit the zero-gravity state for a few seconds on countless occasions, especially at the beginning of an outside loop, but he had never before been asked to try for zero gravity and hold it as long as possible. So the mission developed into a new experience for both pilot and passenger...
Since 1940, when their policies came under SEC regulation, mutual funds have been among the fastest-growing of all forms of investment. More than 1,500,000 investors today hold shares of 168 diversified investment companies with a total net asset value of about $11 billion. The funds put more than $100 million a month into the securities market, hold about 3.8% of the dollar value of all shares on the New York Stock Exchange. The recession has scarcely slowed the growth of the popular "open-end" funds.* While sales of the mutual funds' shares were...
...stay silent grew fiercer still. He was helped by the growing numbness to pain of a body already half dead. Eventually, the torturers flagged, and Alleg knew that he was winning: "I suddenly felt proud and happy not to have given way. I was convinced that I could still hold out . . . that I would not help them in their job of killing...
...annual Radcliffe Alumnae Citations were awarded. Mrs. Bernice Brown Cronkhite '16, Dean of the Graduate School was presented with the Alumnae Achievement Award, and Mrs. Amborn Jayapani Meesook, Director of the Educational Information Division in the Ministry of Education of Thailand, received the twelfth Graduate Chapter Medal. Both educators hold M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Radcliffe...