Word: hold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ancient Tradition. Actually Washington's ghostly authors were only bringing mass-production methods to an even more ancient if questionable tradition. Scholars hold that Nero's speeches were written by his tutor, Seneca. Aulus Hirtius is credited with turning out part of Julius Caesar's Commentaries. A good part of George Washington's Farewell Address was probably written for him by Alexander Hamilton...
...appropriated in 1918 by the Austrian Republic. Stored in salt mines during World War II, it was recovered by General Patton's Third Army, and sent on a triumphal tour of Europe and the U.S. by liberated Austria. For the transatlantic crossing, the collection was packed into the hold of a refrigerated Navy supply ship (hold temperature...
...medical subsidiary, the Blakiston Co., for which he had long worked in his spare time. He will continue as medical editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Hearst's American Weekly, in his spare time will write a syndicated daily column and two monthly columns, and hold down teaching posts at the University of Chicago and University of Illinois medical schools. Somehow, Dr. Fishbein also expects to have time for a lecture tour and for work on a layman's guide to modern psychiatry...
...time or another, he had spoken out for cuts in defense spending, greater economies in ECA operations, and a tighter rein on atomic energy appropriations. As for the farmer, Sawyer told a luncheon group in New Orleans' International House: "I don't hold with this idea of giving the farmer special treatment . . . No one has any idea how much the Brannan plan would cost. I think that's one place we could make big savings...
What really speaks in favor of recognition, however, is the consequent possibility of America's retaining a foot-hold in China through diplomatic, commercial, educational, and missionary ties, thus leaving China's door open for influence by the West toward the democratic and independent direction. If recognition is delayed for too long, all existing ties between China and the U.S. will be severed, and it will be difficult to re-establish them in the future...