Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HYRC did not give the statement formal endorsement because some of its passages were ambiguously worded," Moore said. He referred specifically to the second sentence of the second paragraph: "We believe that (the President and the Corporation) will preserve an atmosphere in which the right of a teacher to retain his position will not be questioned as long as he does not act unlawfully or immorally or does not use his position to distort the facts or to insist upon the acceptance of his own beliefs as the only possible truths...
...Yale and Princeton in a triangular meet, the Yardling squad licked both, although the Tiger Cubs had been touted as Princeton's best since 1949. A Princetonian led the field in that meet and a Princetonian finished seventh, but the Yardlings placed five men between the two Tigers to retain the Big Three freshman title. And all five men finished within 17 seconds of each other. The score was Harvard 20, Princeton 39, Yale...
...first and last scenes, the international flavor of the play serves, as it should, to heighten the interest of the plot. The plot retreats, however, in the U.N. scenes and the play depends solely and vainly on the dramatic originality of a U.N. committee session on stage to retain the attention of the audience. While there is certainly an essential interest in this setting, in the gathering of nations around a conference table, in the obstructionism of the Russian Delegate and the neutrality of the Delegate from Pakistan, the authors have not translated this interest into dramatic terms. The committee...
...merchants also blame the mid-west contingent for the recent infatuation with "miracle" fabrics such as dacron and orlon. These synthetic materials are softer than the traditional cloths and retain shape and crease indefinitely. The fabrics are found in shirts; ties, socks and almost every other garment, except for underwear which is tartan this year...
...traditional flannel suit is fighting a desperate last-ditch battle to retain its preeminence in the field. Gray flannel seems to be definitely losing favor and the manufacturers have introduced a new color--"char-brown"--which they hope may help them steal a march on the rest of the garment industry. If the color gimmick falls, merchants say, the flannel regime may well be coming...