Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year Coach Stevens kept only two eights under his direct supervision. In the event that he decides to retain only two eights as his first squad this year, crew Z will revert to Coach Brown at a later date, after a more permanent realignment of the candidates in the present first squad. Last year three oarsmen earned their letters by rowing in the first boat against Yale. They were taken up to the first squad by Coach Stevens following the class crew season, in which a victorious Crimson shell opened up five lengths of water in the race with...
There is a recurrent journalistic fable that grains of wheat taken from ancient Egyptian tombs have grown into new wheat plants. Scientists take no stock in it. The maximum length of time in which wheat grains retain their germinating power is well established as about 25 years. In cases where people have made the experiment in good faith and obtained positive results, it is probable that they were bubbled by fakers who sold them modern wheat for ancient...
Robert T. Fisher '12 will retain his position as head coach of the University football team, according to an announcement made last night by the Athletic Committee...
...Lady Astor spoke in favor of a motion to permit British women married to aliens to retain their British nationality. Said...
...doubtedly the Philadelphia; but the Philharmonic runs it close. The Boston is evidently in a transition stage. With its American tradition of long-term conductors it is bound to take a little time to give itself up entirely to a new spirit; but if it is fortunate enough to retain Koussevitzky for another year or two, and will make a few obviously necessary changes in its personnel, it will become a marvelous instrument. It is already a remarkable one. The New York Symphony Orchestra I heard only two or three times; it has apparently become so part and parcel...