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Word: hold (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four hundred or more people have accepted invitations to attend the sessions to be held at Harvard Tuesday, November 12 and Wednesday, November 13 under the direction of the Calvert Round Table of Boston. This organization will hold a seminar in the Fogg Museum on those days to discuss various aspects of problems arising from the relations of Catholics, Jews and Protestants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTED CLERGY TO ATTEND ROUND TABLE GATHERING | 11/7/1929 | See Source »

...About half of the cases will be taken out, and much more space is to be used for exhibitions. In the old room there will still be kept shelves for books which certain undergraduate courses require. The cases about the wall of the upper Treasure Room will continue to hold many of the library's choicest possessions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TREASURE ROOM IN WIDENER LIBRARY IS TO BE ENLARGED | 11/6/1929 | See Source »

...brief hold-up occurred over hexamethylenetetramine (derivative of formaldehyde and ammonia used in medicine and vulcanized rubber) when Generalissimo Smoot could not pronounce it. Ink rates fell suddenly with a great black splash over the regulars. Epsom salts collapsed feebly under the jabbing attack of the Coalition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Rate Encounters | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Just what position Mr. Girdler will hold in the Eaton "interests" is as doubtful as what companies Mr. Eaton intends to put in the long-discussed super-steel-merger. Mr. Eaton, working with William Gwinn Mather and Otis & Co., sponsors of Continental Shares, Inc., is supposed to control enough steel companies to enable him to form a single unit that will challenge Bethlehem's position as second biggest U. S. producer. Until plans for this consolidation are completed, it is probable Mr. Girdler will advise the Eaton group on technical matters and stock activity. Chief companies with which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Eaton's Girdler | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...that somebody had deliberately turned on the steam heat. A member of the local police notified the newspapermen that I was intoxicated. . . . Half a dozen different stories were carried back to me and each time my supposed degree of intoxication was so great that it required two men to hold me up. ... To my way of thinking, neither the tariff nor the farm problem were important factors in the determination of the election. In its broad aspects the campaign appeared to me to be one of Smith or anti-Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Politics and Sprigs | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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