Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...R.A.F. was convinced that 40% of Germany's fighter strength was on the Western Front. Said a well-informed R.A.F.man last week: "The number of fighters against us on the Western Front today is more than it was two or three months ago. We still retain against ourselves and Malta a greater number of fighters-both single and twin-engined-than are distributed on the whole Russian Front...
...organ works, Columbia has released another Bach-Stokowski transcription, this time a brilliant performance of the D minor Toccata and Fugue. Columbia offers in addition this month an excellent collection of Negro spirituals sung by the Wings Over Jordan Choir who extemporize the different parts in an attempt to retain the spontaneous improvisation which gave birth to these songs...
...Trouble with Retain. Despite this torrential milking of France, Marshal Petain's collaboration was never 100% satisfactory to the Nazis. Even a year ago the Nazi-kept Les Nouveaux Temps was howling: "Collaboration must be expanded from the economic to the political plane to be really productive. It can be accomplished only by Laval...
...quarter mile mark. Eventually Harvard's superior coordination and precision allowed Bus Curwen to raise the beat to a breathless 42, and in the final 20 strokes the Varsity surged ahead for the first time during the race to gain a nerve-wracking deck-length victory, enabling Harvard to retain the Rowe Memorial Cup for at least another year...
There should be more revivals of these important landmarks, but revivals that try to retain the spirit of the play as actually written. Exigencies of the commercial and amateur theatre too often prevent such revivals, for box-office returns are founded on "names," and most of the fore-runners of the modern drama are unknown outside classrooms. It is a pleasure, then, to see the current production of the Harvard Dramatic Club, Nikolai Gogol's "The Inspector General." This semi-realistic social comedy, first produced in 1936, influenced all the later Russian playwrights and also those of Germany, Norway...