Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anabantidae, is popularly known as the climbing fish, because it actually does climb trees to a height of six or seven feet. Its habitat is India and the East Indies. It is about six inches long and has a peculiar spiny covering on its gills which enables it to retain water in the interstices. Thus it can live a long time out of water, travel on dry land for a long distance and can catch on to the bark of trees and climb...
...speedy passage. Now it has been badly mangled in the House (see Page 3), with the Senate yet to be heard from, and a possible Presidential veto to finish off with. Many a citizen will pay his income tax in quarterly installments this year, figuring that he would rather retain the money himself in case a cut is made than wait for the Government to make a refund...
...bitter and prolonged competition for the league championship that would undoubtedly result, the position and powers of the coach would receive the usual undue emphasis. Moreover, the formation of a league necessarily means the resigning of some of the independence of each member; that the Athletic Committee must retain full powers over the management of Harvard athletics is in truth the vital objection to plans for intercollegiate league organization of baseball...
...other hand, the talk of making colleges mere laboratories for the lecture-publisher is not alarming. The colleges will always retain their function of supplying the mental stimulus for true education; and unless there is this stimulus, any number of bales of printed lectures is so much paper and little else. If the time has come when the printed lecture can supplant the spoken lecture, can arouse as much interest, command as undivided attention, the colleges will do well to revise their courses and weed out their lecturers. The personality of a great professor is often the determining factor...
...Golf Association sustains the stymie. Ever since Max R. Marston snatched the amateur championship from Jesse W. Sweetser with a stymie on the 37th green at Flossmoor (Chicago) last summer (TIME, Oct. 1) discussion has sizzled. After intensive investigation the U. S. G. A. decided to retain the present ruling, arguing that the stymie's abolition would eliminate "what many believe to be the finest shot in golf, the short pitch into the hole...