Word: retained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Virginia-born wife Nancy last week relinquished Cliveden to the British people. Their home, with its spacious grounds west of London on one of the most beautiful reaches of the Thames, was handed over to the National Trust, custodian of Britain's national property. The Astors retain the right for themselves and their sons after them to occupy the house as long as they wish. As tenants of national property, they will save land and inheritance taxes...
...Army is well equipped-superbly equipped considering Russia's wartime poverty-chiefly because its leaders, General Zhukov included, had the wit and, courage to retain and build up great reserves of munitions when the richest lands and cities of Russia were falling to the Germans. The true extent of those reserves, known only to the Red Army command, is one of the factors which will determine the course and outcome of the winter's battles. And if worse comes to worst and the winter offensives fail, Joseph Stalin, Georgy Zhukov and the rest of the Red Army command...
...places, the powerful Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Their idea: to register all railroad men periodically unemployed at off-peak times on their own roads, for emergency work on nearby railroads where lack of manpower threatens to delay movement of war shipments. Under the scheme the workers would retain their seniority standing with their old railroad but would work under the pay rates and regulations of the railroad temporarily hiring them...
...actual research technique is a time-tested formula. Write or telephone before you arrive at an office. Always start with the president and work down. Don't pester the companies more than once or twice for each case. By observing these three rules, researchers establish and retain the good will of cooperating companies...
...statement was available here as to how many applicants for the Class were expected. Princeton, however, predicted last week that as many students would enter in June 1943 as did last spring, and Yale disclosed the same day that it would retain facilities for at least 2700 students...