Word: retain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thumbing the slender volume, King Christian may well have reflected with warmth in his heart that he receives as King of Iceland some 60,000 kroner a year ($16,000) from his Icelandic subjects who thus retain their actual freedom while united, through the person of the King, with Denmark, their potent protectress...
...this none too lucid metaphor the Premier referred with intentional vagueness to one of the chief problems of the Imperial Conference: how to grant the Dominions the freedom they ask yet retain them within the Commonwealth. Last week a notable pioneering step was taken when, with the consent of the Imperial Conference, the Canadian Government appointed the Hon. Vincent Massey to be its Minister Plenipotentiary Extraordinary...
Sandor Turai, mellow cynic, would rather his dear Albert retain a beautiful illusion than know the bitter truth. So he writes a play during the night, works the scandalous conversation into the dialogue, makes the two culprits act it before the houseparty guests, thus makes the naughty prima donna partner to a virtuous rehearsal in her chamber the night before. It was rather difficult to find some-thing " 'soft, round, velvety,'-and respectable." But Playwright Molnar is nothing if not ingenious. He has even given Johann Dwornits-chek, footman, a personality. Ralph Nairn plays the part. The entire...
...certainly treated in a cavalier fashion by those in charge of athletics at Harvard. This, of course rankles in the hearts of both Princeton undergraduates and graduates alike. Princeton for some time has felt it eminently necessary to remain a part of the Big Three. Even colleges must retain prestige. And Princeton has derived no little part of hers from the fact that she has long been included in the Big Three. Placing those two facts together, then, one readily understands why such phenomena as those of the last weekend can occur...
...Bingham '16, Director of Athletics through the Committee on Regulation of Athletic Sports, has asked Arnold Horween '20, head coach of of the University football team, to continue in this position with a contract running over a period of several years. The Committee is very anxious to retain Horween's services and has offered him this contract. No further details were available...