Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand-&-one uses. Aluminum Co. of America thus may have to supply one kind of tubing for an airplane wing strut, another for the landing gear, yet another for the rudder. Up to now the company has borne this cross with profit and equanimity, has also managed to retain its corner on most of the preliminary fabrication...
...beyond measure to hear of the sudden passing of my old friend and your Ambassador, the Marquess of Lothian. I am very certain that if he had been allowed by Providence to leave us a last message he would have told us that the greatest of all efforts to retain democracy in the world must and will succeed...
Most impressive among the projects now underway is a mural being painted on the wall behind the main stairway in Bunt Hall by John A. Holabird Jr. '42, following the theme that man must retain his individuality despite modern machinery and industrialization. The mural expresses, in effect, the fundamental credo of the course...
...have elected Franklin Roosevelt President. He is your President. He is my President. . . . Nevertheless [we] retain the right, and I will say the duty, to debate the course of our Government. Ours is a two-party system. Should we ever permit one party to dominate our lives entirely, democracy would collapse and we would have dictatorship...
...taken from a bailed-out German airman. Defense Counsel Gerald Thesinger based his case on Rex v. Broom, in the reign of William III, which was based in turn on a case tried during the reign of Henry VIII. These cases upheld the right of any British subject to retain any property he may be able to seize from "the King's enemy." "Therefore," argued Thesinger, "the property was never vested in the Crown...