Word: retained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's decree there was only one catch. Every peasant, in order to retain his status, must be "honorable"- the requisite degree of honor being defined as ''honorable enough to pay his debts if he is able to do so after proper administration of his land." Peasants who flagrantly cheat their creditors will suffer a peculiar penalty: the cheater's estate will pass while he is yet living to his heir. If the heir turns out to be a cheat, his heir gets the estate, and so on until an "honorable peasant" is found...
...present quotations on the dollar in terms of the pound or franc show the dollar to be worth about 66 cents. If devaluation ratifies the existing level, then the total gold profit will be about two billion. It is not known how much the gold hoarders retain, but it is believed they have about $200,000,000 and will make a profit of $100,000,000. The Government will try to take it from them by taxation...
...membrane had caught fast, but by raising up the lung with the forefinger of my left hand I clipped off, with my penknife in my right hand, the sharp point of the rib, which enabled me to return the lung into the cavity of the thorax, but could not retain it there on the least effort of the patient to cough, which was frequent...
Besides unripeness, babies suffer a violent shock during the process of being born. The shock shifts the water content of the body cells, also makes them unfit to retain water. The baby is water-starved. To overcome dehydration due to birth shock, Dr. Kugelmass has tried feeding newborns a solution of gelatin, salt and dextrose...
...gelatin, an easily assimilable food, transmits water to the infant. The salt helps to retain water in the baby's system. The gelatin also raises temperature, which is subnormal at birth, and elevates blood pressure, which the shock of birth has lowered. The dextrose supplies calories for the babe's first vital activities...