Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thousands of pupils will retain the memory of the majestic figure and the electric personality which so long dominated English 2 and which gave birth to a whole cycle of picturesque anecdotes...
...withdrew 15 divisions from the Karelian Isthmus. Having recaptured Viipuri, which the Russians took from them in 1940, the Finns, by the Russians' withdrawal, will now have virtually all their pre-1940 territory back again. Stalin evidently hoped that the Finns, anxious to retain the friendship of the U.S. and embarrassed by their alliance with Hitler, might now pile arms and pull out of the campaign...
Sirs: I am just one of Uncle's selectees. I have very recently read of proposals by high Government officials to retain selectees and National Guardsmen longer than their one year...
Last week Tessie Oelrichs, the daughter of an Irish immigrant who made millions in the Comstock Lode, turned in her grave. Before she died in 1926 she knew that grand-manner Newport could not retain its grandeur. Perhaps she could imagine it slowly falling apart. Each year something happened to it - some dealer bought one of the great houses that nobody ever really lived in, some heir sold the crystal chandeliers, the grand pianos, the organs, the stained glass windows, the gold-inlaid bathtubs, the tapestry, the silver and the collections of classics that nobody read - until Newport grew more...
...long conference ended. One story about it reached the press. As Willkie was leaving, President Roosevelt told him that his friends had advised him to retain the foremost U.S. psychiatrists to work out ways of correcting and influencing public opinion. Willkie grinned. "Mr. President," said he, "have you heard of the first meeting of your fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, and Albert Lasker, the advertising man?" The President had not. Willkie told how Lasker traveled to Oyster Bay, how Teddy, all smiles, teeth and outstretched arms, burst in to greet him, crying out, "Mr. Lasker, I've been told that...