Word: retained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game on ice before the Crimson could recover. Final score was 3-0 with accurate position play on the part of the Elis during the rest of the encounter holding Harvard scoreless. The last tally of the game came in the second half. Although the Crimson managed to retain possession of the ball for about half the game, the Cambridge booters did not have the ability to match a superior Yale attack...
...have hung on to Benny De Voto if it had to offer him Sever Hall with the Memorial Chapel thrown in. I am aware that he resigned in order to accept the editorship of the Saturday Review of Literature. But if a great university has no resources sufficient to retain a teacher it badly needs, a good many young men are going to regret that fact...
...ground, his hand on a transatlantic telephone. Fortnight ago, Mr. Kent was suddenly invited to Mr. Maxwell's office in Golden Square off London's Regent Street. If Twentieth Century-Fox would prefer it, said blunt Mr. Maxwell, he would be happy that they should retain their 49% interest in the Gaumont-British holding company. On the other hand he would be equally happy to relieve them of that interest. Convinced that Mr. Maxwell could indeed speak for Gaumont-British, President Kent hurried back to his telephone in Claridge's hotel...
...have something to do with the fact that there is no Prince of Wales. The immense revenues which previously went to the Prince of Wales from the Duchy of Cornwall now appertain to His Majesty, although when he first came to the Throne experts disputed weightily whether he retained the title Duke of Cornwall. It has also been arranged that military groups designated hitherto as "The Prince of Wales' Own" retain that designation and their bands continue to play their stirring march, God Bless The Prince of Wales...
...corporation but not the stockholders-is to pay dividends in stock. That is the second use to which C. & O. will put its new preferred, a $2 extra in preferred stock being planned for this year. A $1 extra in cash is also planned but C. & O. will still retain enough of its 1936 earnings by the preferred plan to finance its ordinary improvements...