Word: hold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since a service's hardware affects the role it wins in strategy and gives it the backing of a powerful segment of industry, no branch willingly gives up a promising weapon in favor of a similar one developed by a competitor. The Army's attempt to hold a place in space resulted in the Pentagon compromise to manufacture both the Jupiter (Army) and Thor (Air Force) intermediate-range ballistic-missile systems. Today's snowballing result is a duplication in production facilities, costly ground-handling equipment and training, as Jupiters are being installed in Italy and Turkey while...
...following will hold office for four years beginning Jan. 1, 1960: George Z.F. Bereday, professo of Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University; Henry S. Dyer '27, vice-president, Educational Testing Services, Princeton, N.J.; James A. Lewis, vice-president of student affairs at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.; and Ernest Stabler, professor of Education and chairman of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn...
...weather was a big factor. Snow and icy roads in much of the north tended to discourage motoring and to hold down speed...
...failure was a bitter disappointment to missilemen who hoped to put the United States back into the space race with Russia. It probably means that the Russians will hold their long lead in space exploration for at least another year...
Installment buying is one of the major causes of the phenomenon, along with the changing habits of U.S. consumers. They no longer hold on to suits, coats and dresses as if they were heirlooms; determined promotion campaigns keep apparel one of the hottest selling items. Furniture, refrigerators, rugs-all once bought to last for years or life-are now replaced with register-tingling regularity...