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Word: retains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...date one of the greatest achievements of Signor Mussolini has been to retain dominance over both Royalists and Republicans. Both secretly hope that he will eventually cast his whole weight upon their side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cross or Fasciol | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...horse-racing (W. E. Raney, onetime Attorney General of Ontario, the Honorable Newton Wesley Rowell, member of the Board of Governors of the University of Toronto, and the Rev. Ben Spence, head of the Prohibition Union) $25,000 worth of Ontario Jockey Club stock, on condition that they retain the stock for a period of years and draw dividends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMONWEALTH: Birth Race | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

Harvard has this season a team without great experience but one which should press the title-holding Yale aggregation to retain the title...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON AMONG VACATION FOES FOR CRIMSON CHESSMEN | 12/18/1926 | See Source »

About a month after the Leland Stanford debate Harvard will enter the second and third rounds of the Eastern intercollegiate Debating League's Championships. Thus far, with two victories and no defeats, the University team stands in a fair way to retain the title it won last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVEN DEBATERS PICKED FOR UNIVERSITY TEAMS | 12/14/1926 | See Source »

...century--but these two would appear to have withstood the test of time. Certainly modes and manners have changed since the "Pinafore" craze of the seventies. But sweet little Buttercup remains to charm her auditors, who may have learned to like many new and bizarre entertainments but who still retain a very great love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW DUO AMONG CLASSICS | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

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