Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only a question of time. The present engagement comes as the result of negotiations with Dr. Rowe, of the Tech Athletic Association, the contract covering the entire 1924 rowing season. Coaches E. J. Brown '96 and H. H. Haines, connected respectively with the Crimson class and Freshman crews, will retain their positions...
From M. Rolland we learn that Gandhi was an English patriot as long as he could retain a grain of faith in England's loyalty...
...Asquith. Sir Alfred Mond and Sir John Simon were credited with having engineered the meeting of the two ex-Premiers which resulted in the fusion. It was regarded as certain that, should the Liberals win the general election in December, Mr. George would assume the Premiership while Mr. Asquith retained the leadership of the Party, thus giving the two control. Another report stated that Mr. Asquith will either become Premier for a short time and resign, or get elevated to the House of Lords and retain the Premiership there. At any rate Mr. George is to have as much...
Nevertheless that either one of the opposition parties should win a clear-cut victory seems well-nigh impossible. Then, if the Conservatives fail to retain their majority, the world may be treated to the spectacle of political legerdemain resulting in a coalition of strange associates, soon to be followed strange associates, soon to be followed by another general election. At any rate England seems to be in for an interesting time...
...alphabet, whose very sounds not only symbolized the concrete, but "suggested the soul of thought which is beyond expression". This alphabet, Mr. Ennis holds, was "systematically and deliberately constructed to embody funds of Knowledge", so that "every letter had a hidden meaning, and words in current use today retain the meaning which the group of letters gave." And accepting the tradition which exists in Ireland, in Greece and in Egypt of an ancient alphabet of sixteen letters the author seeks to prove that the well-known nursery catch, "Ena dena, dina, do, catch a nigger...