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Word: retainers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great universities, with their manifold departments and courses and degrees retain no common courses in any way related to the history of the race they will graduate men and women who will have nothing in common but their clothes. They will not even talk the same tongue, though they may all speak a dialect of one language. They will be free and unrestrained individuals. And they will have no ancestors whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Athens and Rome Revive | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

...reflections on the verdict of Judges Charles E. Miles, Charles Meighan and Referee Patsy Haley, but William Muldoon himself, Chairman of the State Athletic Commission, declared the decision "unjustifiable". He stated, however, that the verdict was official and that the State Commission would stand by it. Accordingly, Tunney will retain his doubtful honors until he takes clear title to the championship in another fight with Greb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Greb vs. Tunney | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

...lead early in the game as the result of a goal caged after a foul, dropping behind shortly when McLeish did the same feat three times for Harvard, then coming to the fore again as the result of an agggressive attack, the Yale basketball team was able to retain an advantage throughout the remainder of the game and to defeat the Crimson quintet 36-28 here tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE KEEPS EARLY LEAD TO WIN 36-28 | 2/27/1923 | See Source »

...Tench took turns at capturing and losing the pole for two and a half laps, but Murphy's strong finish in the last 50 yards sent Vinton Chapin '23 off with a five-yard lead over Holden of Technology. This advantage the Crimson runner was unable to retain, for he was soon passed and was three yards in the rear when he handed over the baton to J. E. Merrill '24, who ran third in both races. Merrill did not gain on Joyce, so that Burke, at anchor, was several yards behind Bateman, when he started off on the final...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RELAY TEAMS WIN IN K. OF C. GAMES | 2/19/1923 | See Source »

...Congress, lost it seem ungenerous, has decided that if the Indian is to be deprived of his lands, he shall at least retain possession of his favorite drug, "peyote". Even this momentous decision was only reached after more than an hour of argument, which raised the question "What is peyote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BEAUTIFUL STATE OF MIND | 1/11/1923 | See Source »

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