Word: retains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Argument for such a job is that the U.S. is too deeply involved in war to retain the world's last vestiges of free-market principles. On the domestic front, the Government's division of authority among various departments is annoying to businessmen but not fatal. But in dealing with totalitarian foreign powers, the U.S. needs to confront the world as one power, with one policy and one personnel...
...workers walked out of the Aluminum Co. of America plant in Cleveland, an order came from Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, deputy director of the draft, that henceforth "the citizen who has been deferred because of the job he is performing in the national defense program cannot expect to retain the status of deferment when he ceases to work on the job for which he was deferred." In World War I President Wilson issued a similar order: "Work or fight...
...rather invisible, sub atomic debris. These hot, degenerate gases are expanded, Menzel believes, by the force of great whirlpools within the sun. Therefore, streaming out of the sun's interior in occasional eruptions, the gases do not cool immediately. Far from the sun's surface, they retain much of the heat of the sun's interior, and they are still so highly ionized as to be invisible. But as they cool, the atoms become less ionized, and electrons rejoin their nuclei. Visible matter condenses apparently out of nothing into flaming tongues that rain downward toward...
...older generation have learned a patois that passes for English, but they retain sentence structures from Yiddish (Pa Gross, protesting a torrent of talk: "Like a machine is gung the tunks. Like a sobvay is coming the woids-tukk, tukk, tukk!"). They put extra consonants in certain words-"udder" for or, "paintner" for painter, "finndish" for finish. They say "chonging" for charging, "serrisfied" for satisfied, "tenner" for tenant...
...proof positive of objective, truth. The Crimson scribbler who maligned Mr. Davis in an editor's note attached to Mr. Davis letter must be banished to work for which he is better fitted. He has failed to recognize a master of the serio-jocose. The Crimson will certainly not retain in his present dangerous capacity a man who fails to recognize the new-Swift our Mr. Davis. Marion J. Levy...