Word: retain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the Carnegie Institute of Technology whereby he spends the first half year at Harvard and the second at Pasadena. A temporary appointment to provide an acting chairman during his absence was formerly made. Professor Munro, who is now on leave from Cambridge, felt that he was unable to retain his post owing to his repeated absences...
...delighted by his arrival in company with his mother. When he became aware of his father's relations with lisa Von Ilsa, Robert clutched his mother and they went back to the country together. Albert Von Echardt was sorry to lose his son but he was glad to retain the beautiful, the charming lisa. Hers was the last entrance onto the stage; she mixed Albert a drink of bicarbonate of soda, while he sat playing the piano, and she handed it to him with a look at once teasing, gay, quizzical and tender; as he turned to take...
...spirit of Christmas show how little any of us know about it after the first ten magical years of our life are over. It needs a supreme disregard of physical limitations and an indifference to the more material things of the world that only a few divinely gifted men retain after they have lost their ignorance of them. Dickens knew the secret when he wrote that spiritual epic "The Christmas Carol". Not many Bob Cratchits can quite forget the next rent bill even in the midst of the feast, and the faintest savor of the mundane changes the Olympian ambrosia...
Common desires expressed by MM. Diaz, Moncada & Chamorre were, a) To retain some U. S. Marines to continue training the Nicaraguan national guard; b) to persuade the U. S. soon to build the long-planned interoceanic canal across Nicaragua, for which a treaty and $3,000,000 have already been furnished. One of the canal's original promoters, Judge Henry Douglas Pierce of Indianapolis, who first traversed the proposed route from west to east half a century ago, was in Nicaragua on one of many missions which have brought Nicaraguan leaders to favor the project. Judge Pierce, stricken with...
...confused with the Lucy Stone League composed of women who retain the use of their full maiden names, though married. Such women are popularly dubbed "Lucy Stoners...