Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dickie. Between wars, it was possible for properly born officers of the Royal Navy to retain their standings, and still find time for play. Actually, Lord Louis did a lot of good sound Navy work, but he chose to hide the fact from his London friends, who would have disapproved...
Through four years at Colgate University and a postgraduate course at Harvard, he managed to retain a slight Russian accent and his intimate ties with the good Russian earth. "I," he sometimes says with a Slavic spreading of hands, "am a peasant." Fee fi fo fum. When the Bolsheviks began to "liquidate the kulaks [successful farmers] as a class," Journalist Hindus dashed over to Russia to see what was happening to his fellow peasants. Result of his observations was Humanity Uprooted, a best-seller whose thesis was that it may be tough to be collectivized by force, tougher still...
...sibly revealing important traits, attitudes, values of the "hidden" personality. Research for medical graphology (which studies handwriting for symptoms of nervous diseases) already indicates that handwriting is more than muscular. Most re-assuring observation: people who lose their upper extremities, then learn to write with mouth or toes, retain in their new mouth-or foot-writing the essential characteristics of their original handwriting...
Either Frank Cunningham's or Johnny Abbot's boat will meet stiff opposition from five other college lightweights as Harvard seeks to retain the Cup which they have held for quite some period of years...
Regarding the Business School as thoroughly adjusted to its wartime function, the 64-year-old Dean chose to resign now as the moment when there was the least unfinished business. Hoping to accomplish "a lot of things there never was time for as Dean," he will nevertheless retain his position at the School as George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Economics...