Word: retained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...polish and attainments, but no political experience. Not for generations has this G.O.P. nomination been considered worth the red fire to illuminate its defeat, but with a Tammany Irishman carrying it, with perhaps 8,000 anti-Roosevelt Democrats swinging in behind the Republican voters, the Gashouse district may well retain its Representative with only a change in his party label...
...determined during the week, only one was over 21. Youngest was Augusta's 12-year-old Clayton P. ("Red") Boardman Jr., freckles champion of Georgia, who. hobbling around on crutches (because of a foot infection that hospitalized him for six months), broke 95 out of 100 targets to retain the sub-junior title he won last year...
Among the U. S. monthly magazines once included in the "quality group," only Harper's and Atlantic Monthly-* retain the form and flavor of the old literary magazine. For their adherence to tradition, their circulations have stagnated while others in the group gained new readers by compromise. Scribner's, now published by Harlan Logan, has become bigger in form, brighter in tone. The American Mercury, never a group member in good standing, has achieved new fame as a pocket-size mouthpiece of reaction...
...entering a house, or a room in a house whether there are ladies present or not, retain their hats on their heads? For many years past all American films have shewn men, and particularly police men and detectives, entering houses rather unceremoniously wearing their hats and smoking cigars or cigarettes. Mostly the former...
...disadvantage, sputtered that the price reductions "would be extremely costly." Little Wickwire Spencer Steel Co. was said to have protested to Washington that it might not be able to survive. Detroit. Cleveland, Sparrows Point. Md., and Middletown, Ohio, overnight became basing points as other steel companies sought to retain their competitive positions...