Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year, but nothing is likely to happen before then. This view is backed by the fact that Germany, Poland, Sweden, Holland have all-to a greater or lesser extent-reverted to gold payments. Britain can hardly afford to drop behind these countries if she is to retain financial supremacy in Europe...
...absurd for New York City to retain a school calendar devised for the purpose of releasing big boys from rural school for haying and harvesting. It is absurd for healthy children in high school to have a ten weeks' summer vacation, with weeks off at Christmas and Easter, when their hard-worked fathers, who pay for it all, get little or none...
...generals and won beautiful women in the hot Spanish southland has long since passes the sceptre of popular favor to that delicate product of modern novelists: the hero who analyzes and records his "complexes." Yet when this newer type becomes a trifle boring the exaggerated romances of Davis still retain some of their old charm; and when one of his adventurers actually appears on the crowded walls of lower Manhattan the mostest jaded Broadwayite is tempted to look. So with "Tex" O'Reilly...
...trustees of Trinity College were not, as it seemed to many, faced with the question of whether or not to "substitute the name of Duke* for that of Deity." On the contrary, the terms of the proposed agreement left them free to put Duke above Deity and retain...
...plan, in brief, provides: 1) That the Government shall retain ownership of Muscle Shoals; 2) that at any time the Government may take over the plant on five days' notice for the manufacture of nitrates for war purposes; 3) that the operators of the plant are to produce 40,000 tons of fertilizer annually after the fourth year and sell it at a profit of not over 8%; 4) that the Secretary of War is to lease the plant for 50 years to a private enterprise, on these conditions and on others concerning the disposal of surplus power...