Search Details

Word: upheld (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...vaulting has been somewhat weak all season. Snow and Gelck have upheld Crimson honors in this department, and Sam Paschal came through with a jump of 11 feet in the Exeter meet, and promise of better things...

Author: By Arne L. Schoeller, | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/4/1949 | See Source »

...York court last week officially upheld the right of an Episcopal bishop to fire a minister under his jurisdiction. As he listened to his friend, Justice Meier Steinbrink, deliver the long decision upholding the provisions of Episcopal canon law, old Rector John Howard Melish, 74, slumped forward in his seat and rested his forehead on his cane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Bishop's Rights | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Debate teams argued in Providence and Cambridge last night in an Ivy League contest with Brown on the question: "Resolved, That the Communist Party should be outlawed." The traveling due supported the negative and won a unanimous decision, and the home team upheld the affirmative but lost its argument...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orators Win One; Lose One in Ivy League Debates | 4/23/1949 | See Source »

Holt is always involved in delicate medication between families and sitters. One time parents walked in on a sitter an hour before the expected time to find him sitting in the living room with his shoes off. The parents objected. Holt firmly upheld the right of all students to take their shoes off whenever they wished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baby Sitting Business Pays For Study Time But Has Its Pitfalls | 4/14/1949 | See Source »

Although the Varsity was on the offensive most of the time, BLC demonstrated its veteran experience by scoring on almost every attack. Bill Merryman, assistant coach of the varsity, upheld the honor of the coaching staff by scoring twice...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: Varsity Loses to BLC, 5-2, In Year's First Scrimmage | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Next