Word: retains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rooms must be vacated by August 16 and may not be reoccupied until the middle of September, but residents will be allowed to retain their rooms during the period between the close of the college term and the opening of Summer School...
...change the name to "Hans & Fritz," during the War to "The Captain & the Kids." Based on some youngsters familiar to Germans in the famed drawings of Cartoonist Wilhelm Busch, the "Kids," their antics and tricks on the ever gullible Captain and Inspector, amused millions of U. S. children, still retain immense popularity. Dibble's first "comic," indistinguishable from the original, unfolded an elaborate plot involving a weight-reducing machine, whereby the Kids got pies by the dozen, ice cream by the gallon, and put their parents into straitjackets...
...Permitted the Free State Parliament to adjourn until April 20 without submitting to it last week his proposal to abolish the oath of allegiance to King George. Before they went home the Deputies were told by Minister of Finance John McEntee that the Free State will retain the ?3,000,000 ($10,860,000) which it is scheduled to pay this year to former British "absentee landlords" who sold out their Irish holdings and are owed this money. Messiah de Valera spoke of lowering taxation by this means...
...Detroit, last week, one Wilbur Day was haled into court for carrying concealed weapons. He said he had no money to retain a lawyer...
...appeared to have just one tooth in his upper jaw. We noticed that Bapuji . . . would take from a bowl an artificial set of teeth to manage the scientific mastication of his breakfast. If he were to retain them during the day he would look younger and better than he really does. ... So we notice that he left his artificial dentistry for its strictly scientific use at the next meal, and went on his way a smiling, toothless old man." Can TIME'S correspondent arrange to count St. Gandhi's teeth (or tooth) and settle this...