Word: retainer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other Governments participating in the [World Economic] Conference to agree that they will not, before the 12th of June nor during the proceedings of the conference, adopt any new initiatives which might increase the many varieties of difficulties now arresting international commerce, subject to the proviso that they retain the right to withdraw from this agreement at any time after July 31, 1933, on giving one month's previous notice to the conference...
...with a huge magnet which University of California owns. Liquid helium absorbed and withdrew the magnetically generated heat. At -459.1° Professor Giauque was stopped, regretting that he could not stride the stupendously difficult little step of .3° which would carry him to Absolute Zero where substances should retain no more heat, where molecular activity should completely cease. where all things should be coldly inert. But Absolute Zero must be unattainable on earth except in a perfect vacuum, for where there is substance there must be heat absorbed from radiations of the Sun or other stars...
Students anxious to retain in their minds the general reading knowledge of German which they may have gathered in German A or 1A will find their desires fulfilled in this course of German 2, in which the prep school style of conducting the class is offset by some rather valuable reading in Goethe, Schiller, Lessing, Thomas Mann, and other famous writers of past or present times...
Last country in Europe to retain medieval restrictions against Jews was Royal Spain. Not until the Republic were Jews officially welcomed back to Spain, permitted to be married according to their rites, buried in Spanish cemeteries...
...summer gave me plenty of time to tackle a thick biography. And after reading it-it took me four days during which I hated to lay it down-I wrote Mrs. Atherton a letter. Among other things I asked her how she could write such a long book and retain its vibrancy to the very end. In the very next mail from California I received her reply. Part of it will perhaps interest...