Word: holds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November, Britain and France agreed to hold hands economically as long as the war lasts. Last week, just to make sure, they joined themselves with silver handcuffs. The earlier agreement was to cooperate in the general fields of munitions, raw materials, economic warfare, oil, food, shipping. Last week's agreement covered the commodity which controls all those fields-money...
...doggy, 74-year-old Townsend Scudder, retired New York State Supreme Court Justice, won a Connecticut State Supreme Court injunction allowing him to maintain 27 cocker spaniels on his Round Hill, Greenwich, Conn, estate. Thus ended a litigious two years in which neighbors, annoyed by barking, had sought to hold Judge Scudder down to a measly ten spaniels...
Born in Boston in 1901, Painter Hoffman began drawing as soon as he could hold a pencil. He studied art in Boston and Europe, now lives in a crowded Manhattan studio with a squint-eye view of Central Park. For recreation, he plays squash, second fiddle in an amateur chamber-music ensemble that meets in his studio every Wednesday evening...
Although the book is lively and practical enough to hold most adults, 63-year-old Dr. Stimson, an ardent bird-lover, occasionally reverts to the goody-talk of pre-Parran days. Sample...
Student Council officers who will hold positions on the Committee for the remainder of the year are Phil C. Neal '40, Douglas Mercer '40, and Frederick Holdsworth...