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Word: holds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once, to be resumed later if possible. But if the consecration has been performed, the priest must consume the Host and wine, then end the Mass. Should the Host be lost during a raid, or be destroyed beyond recognition, the Church at some later time would be obliged to hold a solemn service of reparation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For Air Raids | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...whole thing is perhaps too casual for the stage, which, though always professing to hold the mirror up to nature, yammers if things are not catchily focused, neatly glued together, sharply climaxed. Morning's at Seven not only builds toward very little, but is vagrant in method, minor in tone. It just happens to be amusing, persuasive, lifelike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Last week Dr. Ogburn observed that trend analysis had enabled U. of C. investigators to estimate the probability of parole violations, of happy or unhappy marriages. Such predictions do not take account of individual exceptions, but-like the death rate statistics of insurance actuaries, who are also social scientists- hold good for large numbers of subjects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: What Are We Doing? | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Newark, defeated after a bitter fight before the CAA to hold the airlines, the opening of North Beach is a sad blow. But it is a blow to civic prestige rather than to civic economy. From Newark to Manhattan and Queens will move several thousand airport employes and their families (to be joined by workers from Chicago and other points along the lines). In the business of Newark merchants, their departure will make no discernible dent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: North Beach | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...been spared from getting down to cases about tanks, torpedo tubes, guns, engines, propeller shafts, observation instruments, etc. Manufacturing these requires one of the few basic materials the U. S. happens to lack-tin. So does manufacturing tin cans to hold the No. 1 necessity of war and peace-food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: METALS: Tintinnabulations | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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