Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fred West of Cornell will have to muster his best to retain his shot put crown in the Briggs Cage the afternoon of the meet against the Crimson coalition of Howle Mendel and George Downing. Bill Shallow will probably survive the assault on his 35 pound weight record which will be concerted by Warwick McCutheon of Cornell, and George Read of Yale...
...passed out with a loud expiration, and Vag leaped over his prostrate body to grab a handful of Valentine cards--frilly ones with Cupids and lace, uproarious ones with embarrassed beans, and sentimental ones with honey sayings. Wrapping one arm around a leg of the counter, in order to retain his locus, he tried to decide what kind of a Valentine an athletic girl with blend hair and a tremendous appetite for expensive Scotch would like. Despairing of any rational choice, Vag grabbed the nearest "billet doux," threw a dime to the girl with the pasty smile, and releasing...
What is left? Are we to see a "twilight" of the Supreme Court? No one recalling the stormy days of the Reorganization debate could answer in the affirmative. The Court will be on in the minds of the people, and that which the people desire and reverence will retain elements of real power. But in what direction will it be exercised? That is the real question. And the answer lies, it may safely be ventured, in a parallel query: what will be the future relationship between the executive and the legislative branches of government...
Five years ago, I pointed out to you the inaccuracies in an article you printed about the Portland Oregonian and me in your issue of Jan. 7, 1935, and I closed my letter with the suggestion that your publisher retain me to teach TIME the art of being accurate in its reporting...
...talking about aid to Finland. He was talking about Prohibition (as he always has on this date since 1920). "We cannot continue," he cried, "to pour nearly 2,000,000,000 gallons of alcoholic drink every year into the veins of our democracy and expect it to retain the vigor and efficiency so vitally necessary in these critical times." Then he sat down. (Manifestations of applause in the galleries...