Word: retains
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Flag Decision. The new Cabinet has decided to retain temporarily the mooted "flag order" (TiME, May 17 et seq.), as a result of which the Luther Cabinet fell. A new or compromise flag will be devised and submitted to the Reichstag by the Cabinet; but until that is approved or rejected all German consulates (except at inland European towns) will continue to fly the merchant marine flag (greatly resembling the old imperial flag) as well as the ordinary banner of the Reich...
Plebiscite. June 20 has been set by the Cabinet as the date for Germany's long heralded showdown between the Monarchists and the Left parties: the great plebiscite (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.) to determine whether the Reich may retain without compensation property seized from onetime German nobility and royalty...
...opening heats of the afternoon were the 120 yard high hurdles. Dye, present title holder from U. S. C., fairly flew away from the field in the first race to win in 15 seconds flat. The Trojan hurdler is a heavy favorite to retain his title after yesterday's performance. Munphy of Boston College captured the other qualifying berth in the first heat. In the second trial, Ragan of California took a close decision from Wolf, the Pennsylvania high stick artist. The Southern California high hurdlers had a perfect day, two of them taking first places and the third finishing...
...official action as a weak-kneed surrender to rashly importunate youth, had solace in simultaneous news from Smith College. There, young U. S. women expressed either a more conservative attitude toward religion, or greater contentment with the system as applied, by voting 1,081 to 209 to retain compulsory chapel at Smith, a ratio just about inverse to similar votes of late years at Dartmouth,. Yale, Amherst, Vassar...
...referred last week to the need of finding some way to retain the old element of solidarity in undergraduate life, which was a feature of daily chapel that meant much to many Yale men. The question is of course, how we can regain that old solidarity under conditions where the very force of numbers is at the base of the problem. In the three classes of the college there now are over 1400 men, and as things are going there will be 1500 in the near future. Thirty years ago there were 1150 men in the four classes. There...