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Word: retainers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labelled Italian Dolly. The undressed dolls are more active this year than ever before. One boasts of a "real soft nose and almost human ears." This one promised also to blow bubbles when given a pipe. They all can drink water this year (though none are built to retain it), and the manufacturers have provided "changes" for those unimaginative mothers who demand that their little ones behave just like them...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE WALRUS SAID | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

Menzies promised to stop bureaucratic highhandedness, also promised to outlaw the weak Australian Communist Party. The Dominion social welfare program (old-age pensions since 1909, maternity benefits since 1912) was not a campaign issue. Menzies will retain it in full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: The Golden Age Express | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Jones introduction deals mainly with recent attempts in this country (rather than in Germany or in Russia) of a majority to retain the unpopular utterances of a minority. The anthologist, in a well reasoned statement, rejects "arbitrary classifications of citizenship" according to membership in parties or groups Communist, Republican, atheist, or what-have-you. One must judge "men rather than platforms," Jones says, and "Ideas considered pragmatically (rather than) ideologies...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: 'Fortresses for Our Liberties' | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

There are three choices: to continue with the present system, and investigate its results after another decade; to make appointments as vacancies appear and as many needs arise; or to find some system which retain the consistency of the present methods but allow for reasonable flexibility and sensitivity in apportionment of permanent, had paid instruction to fit the demands of times...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: Faculty Allocation System Ignores Popularity Trends, Favors Consistency, Long-Range Plan | 12/14/1949 | See Source »

This is a free country, and Harvard men believe in academic freedom. If Harvard undergraduates and football players, past and present, want to retain Valpey as head coach, that's all there is to it, but let's have an open and free discussion of a difficult and vexatious problem before it is too late...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Congressman Replies | 12/6/1949 | See Source »

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