Word: retained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Food and drink excepted, the only non-green object to retain its true color is the red-and-yellow Shell miniature gasoline pump through which cigaret-lighter fluid is dispensed. The fluid, alas! has succumbed to the mania of the "Man in Green" (so named by Believe-It-Or-Not Ripley...
...death of Senator Fletcher has been senior member of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee with the right to become its chairman, made a difficult decision. Although banking has been his specialty for many years, he renounced his opportunity to become chief arbiter of future banking bills in order to retain his present chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee-and his hold on the New Deal's purse strings...
...Thomas, an astute Welshman with a standing (and perhaps a future) in the British diplomatic service, simply "vanished." His personal bodyguard, Chief Inspector David Storier, vainly tried at Scotland Yard to get let off from guarding the Duke of Windsor. Both Mrs. Simpson and the Duke separately tried to retain the services of Chauffeur George Stanley Ladbrooke (who last winter persuaded the King to buy Buicks, although Mrs. Simpson had originally wanted Packards), but Chauffeur Ladbrooke had had enough. The same applied to distinguished Major Hon. Alexander Hardinge, the anti-Simpsonite whom Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin forced upon King Edward...
Without beating about the bush, Comrade Stalin settled this once and for all last week. "Yes," he said thickly and slowly, "the dictatorship of the working class will remain and the Communist Party will retain its leading position. If critics see these as defects from the standpoint of the Constitution, that is just too bad, because we Bolsheviki see advantages in them. In the U. S. S. R. there is no soil for several parties. There is soil for only one party, which can only be the Communist Party...
...abundance of top notch material will keep every man on his toes to retain his position on the first string. eleven potential starters returning from last year's squad will be bolstered by the addition of three sophomores who played on last year's championship freshman team: Reino R. Grondahl, Fred, W. Heckel III, and Ulysses J. Lupien, Jr. Though Coach Fesler has not chosen any definite starting lineup he has divided the ten most likely starters into two separate quintets which will function as interchangeable units throughout the season...