Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe becomes more helpless, the Americans are compelled to become farseeing and responsible, as Rome was forced by the long decline of Greece to produce an Augustus, a Vergil . . . Something important is about to happen, as if the wonderful jeunesse of America were suddenly to retain their idealism and vitality and courage and imagination into adult life, and become the wise and good who make use of them; the old dollar values are silently crumbling, and the selfcriticism, experimental curiosity, sensibility and warmth [of America] are on then-way in. For Americans change very fast...
...January, House Masters approved a proposal to allow present residents to retain their rooms in the Summer session. A check made early in March indicated that while many men's plans were still unsettled, only a few of these students were planning to attend in the summer. This resulted in the move...
...what to say. There had been so many landmarks to note in his long career that only weathered phrases were left. M.P.s rang what changes they could in the House last week. King himself declared with conscious modesty: "Today's record makes clear that to gain and to retain power in a free country . . . it is not necessary [to] be either a superman or a dictator...
...varsity scene, Williams is not coming unarmed. The Ephmen retain substantially the same squad as last season, and have come up with a former All-American attackman, Joe Merriman, to further their cause. If Williams can be said to have a strong point, it is their attack. Coach Maddux has already assigned defense star Bob Forsythe to shadow Merriman, but Merriman is only one third of the Williams front line. It promises to be a busy day for Crimson goalie Dick Bernard...
...college boy at Williams, he had been able to get along by scribbling down a few notes in class. Now, he takes down everything his lecturers say, spends hours each night going over his notes. Says he: "At my age it is much harder to retain the stuff than it was at 19." A member of Cincinnati's reform Charter Party, he wants to teach college courses in government...