Word: holds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stable purchasing power, based on some former period of prosperity. The House plan would determine such a period and then maintain it as the price base; the Senate, on the other hand, favors more flexibility in the computing of support prices. Badly split, the Democratic ranks are fighting to hold the states they won in 1948, while the G.O.P. is doing its best to win them back. The farmers can only sit back and wait for an adjournment-hungry Congress to battle...
Army's vaunted football squad will arrive at Allston Station at 3 p.m. today and will head immediately for Soldier's Field, where it will hold a light workout...
...time high. Most of the directors, taking into consideration the recent drop in employment and slight economic regression, had previously expected the number of "students" to drop at this time. Although most classes cost only eight dollars for ten-meeting semesters, they were afraid that the public might hold its money in higher esteem than the Ceenter's courses. They were wrong. It seems that most adults already know something about the A B C's of Investments, and consider the Center's dividend of knowledge a thoroughly enjoyable and profitable...
...novice attempting his first climb, HMC rule-makers have devised a devilish set of directives and frustrations. The experts tell you there's no holds barred, but the man who uses his knee in a climb is roundly booed from below, and the student who grabs the belaying rope for support is hold in disdain for the rest of his days. And you can't walk to a cliff by the back slope, you've got to scale the face. And you can't scale the face the easy way, you've got to climb the barest flattest, most unyielding...
...coming thing in continental transportation, however, is hitch-hiking. It apparently came in with the G.I's. Its local name is "auto-stop," and differs from the U. S. variety in that it is considered impolite to stick out one's thumb. The proper method is to hold out the whole arm, bout at the elbow. Even girls can hitch-hike without eyebrows being raised...