Word: retain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...creative children. But when these intangible superiorities, known only in their effects, are gauged by the Binet tests, the implications cannot be uniform in each case. Superintelligent children with normal balance are, according to Mr. M. V. O'Shea, natural leaders of their contemporaries and should be permitted to retain the invaluable common touch, early in play groups, later in divergent associations. Those who show unfavorable balance records must be directed to humanizing pursuits, and, above all, liberated from the chilly solitude of superiority...
...This strip of land is vitally important to Bolivia and the American exporters, for it provides a short cut to the sea. The English, since they own and operate the railroad running over the old, longer passage to the coast, are solidly behind the Paraguayans who are attempting to retain the Chaco. The usual war hysteria has camouflaged this primary issue and added oil to the flames. Horror stories and parades have done their insidious work on the mob mind, until it has seemed to both nations that nothing but national pride and honor are at stake. While this psychological...
...itself in the last war, when by high-handed and stupid actions it swung American opinion over to the side of the Allies and finally brought us to intervention. Secondly, there is the fact that Hitler came to power through a burst of national hysteria and may have to retain power through hysterical procedures. He has used nationalism as a pretext; he may find that the flame will have to be fanned industriously if he is to remain its particular guardian...
...have quite a struggle to assemble a quintet for basketball. Any attempt to incite group activities within the unit meets with the same chilly reception that greeted the short-lived Economics Society. There is some indication of the prevailing spirit in the fact that Leverett was the last to retain a House Committee selected by the master. Some attempt to graft consciousness of the Houe Plan onto the residents has been made by the new elective committee, but it is still considered wise to insure the success of a dance by banding together with Adams. In other directions, paradoxically...
...30th birthday, he got almost as much from the estate of his foster father who died in 1919. To help him run his team as vice president and general manager, Owner Yawkey chose Eddie Collins, famed second baseman and coach of the Philadelphia Athletics. They planned to retain Marty McManus who managed the Red Sox ably for the last half of the 1932 season, buy up enough players to put Boston-one of the most enthusiastic baseball towns in the U. S.—"back on its rightful heights...