Word: retain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spite of excessive duties on woolens the manufacturer is unable to retain the home market; the amount of importation steadily increases every year.- U. S. Almanac, 1889, p. 318; Whitman's pamphlet on Free Raw Material, p. 19; Bulletin of Wool Manufactures for November...
...probable that there is no disease in anyway peculiar to them. One fifth of the community die of contagious diseases, but from these college men suffer very little. From small pox no intelligent community need suffer. A vaccination in early life, however, does not retain its virtue always, and if there are men in college who have not been vaccinated since thirteen or four-teen they had better be so now. Typhoid fever is the contagious disease most likely to make headway in a body of students. The danger would be most likely to come from an impure water supply...
...making the best score shall have his name engraved on the cup, and will be permitted to retain the cup in his possession until June 1st of the following year, on which day he must return it to the captain...
...with Technology. an amateur race meeting and several hare and hound runs. All of these events have been well carried out. The energy shown in the arrangement of so many racing events is deserving of praise. Bicycling now hold a prominent place in college athletics and bids fair to retain...
...nature of a Greek plot is of course in many ways essentially different from that of an English plot, and for this reason it is difficult to draw comparisons. Comparisons in fact are unnecessary. It is enough that a tragedy of a Greek master should retain so much interest for a modern audience as the Electra has shown itself to retain. The fact certainly is worthy of reflection...