Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They can, of course, and it is Tom Matthews' job to see that they do. His staff is familiar with patient memos which begin: "The Managing Editor views with alarm the following: 1) common misspellings (harrassed for harassed, etc.); 2) the use of retain for keep, slew for killed, reveal for anything less than the revelations of William Blake or Moses...
...would be accepted. It was not a new idea. In the 17th Century, Pope Paul V gave Jesuit missionaries permission to say Mass in Chinese.* But the permission was soon withdrawn, and Pope Clement XI later forbade some of the native customs which the Jesuits had allowed converts to retain...
Although Westergaard has left his post as dean he will not become inactive, but will retain the Gordon McKay professorship of Civil Engineering, a chair which he has held since...
...most important truth about China is that hardly anybody in China seems to retain any faith in the ability of the present Government to run the nation wisely, well or honestly...
...called it quits. The loud Little Flower was "at variance with our policies," as Publisher Paul Hunter put it. Reported LaGuardia: "Mr. Hunter ... told me . . . the advertisers didn't like my Sunday night radio program. They were pressing him hard. I have lost Liberty," he cried, "but I retain my soul...