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Word: retainers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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West's mother, releasing a fact she hoped would be helpful in finding her son, said he was fond of browsing in art shops, and that he might retain this habit even if suffering from amnesia...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Search for West Brings Police to Trails in Scollay | 11/1/1946 | See Source »

...ability, nor the power to do. This Authority would copyright everything an author wrote and hold it in the author's name. The writer would sell nothing: he would lease rights--such as movie rights for only one movie, or serial rights for only one publication--but he would retain all future controls. In other words, his property would remain his own for the first time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 10/17/1946 | See Source »

...Wallace himself, by becoming the head of a magazine which during the past two years has begun to resume its place as the most articulate exponent of progressive political action in the United States, he will be able to retain the mantle of leadership of the American liberal movement. Both Wallace and the New Republic are to be congratulated on the appointment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wallace and The New Republic | 10/15/1946 | See Source »

...same time, the Arab fear of an extensive Jewish overrunning of the Near East would be halted by the very fixed boundaries of the new states. Although relinquishing claim to some territory, the Arabs would gain by the increased trade and industry of the entire area. And Britain would retain her essential Middle Eastern military base without interfering with sovereign peoples. Through judicious planning and large scale public works, the Jewish community could fit the large majority of European Jewry into the State within a period of several years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Last Lap | 10/8/1946 | See Source »

...trend was away from the wartime emphasis on the natural sciences, as all but these showed greatly increased enrollments. Economics A swelled from a prewar 1940 total of 512 to a new high of 1,092 to retain its position as the largest elective course in the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ec A, Gov 1 Top Enrollment; History 1 Takes Fourth Place | 10/1/1946 | See Source »

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