Word: retainable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...varsity crew has at last received the much talked of skake-up, and as a result only two men in the boat retain the seats they occupied on last Wednesday. These two are Fennessy at stroke and L. Davis...
...baser consolations, it is also one of the most disheartening concomitants of long life, that we get used to everything. Two things, perhaps, retain their freshness more perdurably than the rest,- the return of spring, and the more poignant utterances of the poets. And here, I think, Wordsworth holds his own with the best. But how much of his poetry is likely to be a permanent possession? The answer to this question is involved in the answer to a question of wider bearing,- What
...committee on the revision of football rules held another meeting Saturday in New York. It was decided not to adopt the new system of scoring which has been proposed but to retain the old system without change...
...performance last night was all, and more than all, that could be desired. In any criticism of the actors, it must always be remembered that they are laboring under very unusual difficulties. The mere recitation of the lines so as to retain the sense and at the same time conform to the peculiarities of the metre, is no slight achievement. Even this, however, is not the greatest difficulty which has to be overcome. Through about half of the play the actors are accompanied by music, which makes it a very easy matter to fall into a sing-song manner...
...Indians as well as the colored students retain the influence of their training even when they return to their old surroundings, and many build comfortable homes for themselves in the midst of surrounding squalor and ignorance...