Word: retain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deader than the ball used last year, on the theory that a deader ball would curtail the American League's superior batting. But the American League, thinking of the large gate receipts produced by its slugfests with the lively ball, used by both leagues since 1934, voted to retain the "rabbit" ball. In the 1938 World Series the competing teams will use the ball of the home team...
While a New Yorker's "thoity-thoid street" grates on certain sensitive ears, so does a Southerner's "Ah" for "I." So, let's call the whole thing off. . . . Let the New Englander retain his nasal twang; it adds flavor and color. Let us not have a Civil War about...
Thus with masterly ambiguity Adolf Hitler bounced Hjalmar Schacht out of the Cabinet, also bounced him back in again.. Effect of this was to retain for Germany some of the kudos of Schacht's name in world finance...
...gaining the verdict the Harvard orators contended that union racketeering would not be ended by incorporation because they would still retain the threat of striking and that conciliation by peaceful means is the solution to labor controversies...
...secure. "Thus there must be required stringent liability on the part of promoters for the worth and good faith of the securities they issue . . ." And further capital must not become "entrenched in certain favored corporate structures." Therefore "the limited liability corporation must be deprived of the right to retain profits and invest them, . . . not according to the judgment of the market but at the discretion of the managers." Mr. Lippmann does not say whether he favors the S.E.C. or the undistributed profits...