Word: holding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charles Townshend, a brilliant but erratic 18th century British statesman. Not bad, but somewhat mandarin. The audience had to remember, or look up, tessellation, which is a mosaic of small pieces of marble, glass or tile. This age, thinks Lord Thomas, is a mosaic of fragments, with nothing to hold them together. Is it an age of brilliant incoherence? Yes. It is also an age of incoherent stupidity...
...hold the view that is being avoided by most people," Griffin says. "I see the council addressing both services and political issues," he adds...
...phone system doesn't work like it used to. When a development office secretary from the Medical School tried to put a Crimson reporter on hold last week, circuits must have crossed. The reporter ended up on the line with the first secretary and another from Med School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson's office. Here's what was overheard...
...Crimson's next competition is in Hanover, N.H., tomorrow against Dartmouth and then it has the week off before riding against Lowell, during which time Green hopes to hold tryouts...
...sleep, I had to show an official Penn housing pass, a driver's licence and be escorted by a card-carrying Penn student. The dormitory entrance resembled nothing so much as Checkpoint Charlie. It's enough to make you appreciate a campus where a cry of "Hold the door, please!" is sufficient to gain entry to a residence...