Word: retained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world position. They cannot ignore the historical fact that pre-eminence or at least equality of power on the Continent has long been accounted essential to Britain's safety. Even in western Europe, they know that they must now fight politically to regain, and then to retain, a very minimum of Continental prestige...
...April 15, 1942, he was called back to active duty in the U.S. Army and on July 4, with the rank of brigadier general, took over command of the Fourteenth's predecessor, the starveling China Air Task Force. He wanted to retain the A.V.G. as an independent striking force, but Washington told him to get into the Army - or else. "I don't want to be a general," Chennault sighed, "but I can't fight without planes." For a while he almost had to fight without them anyway: in the summer and fall of 1942 his bomber...
Propaganda or no, the stories and poems retain literary merit, even in translation. The poetic imagery is freshly original and fragments of the descriptive prose are reminiscent of the best in earlier writings. And it is finally in demonstrating that government inspiration and the sound of guns need not throttio the development of a true literary tradition that the issue gains its main interest. We should like, after all, to say that this respect for common culture optimizes the distinction between our fascist too and our communist ally...
...constantly assumed," he wrote, "especially in our Tolstoyan tendencies, that when the lion lies down with the lamb the lion becomes lamblike. But that is brutal annexation and imperialism on the part of the lamb. . . . The real problem is-Can the lion lie down with the lamb and still retain his royal ferocity? That is the problem the Church attempted; that is the miracle she achieved." In the same manner he explained the profound significance of the story of Fall of Man: "If you wanted to dissuade a man from drinking his tenth whisky, you would slap...
...class, Worth B. Daniels from the Junior class, and Charles N. Peabody from the Sophomores were selected as undergraduate representatives from Harvard. Lamar Field was picked from the students of M. I. T. Ralph J. Baker was chosen to succeed A. J. Casner as Stockholder. R. W. Thorpe will retain his position...