Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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From present indications only five or six crews will continue rowing after the regatta. The first three University crews, A. B and C, and probably two or three reorganized Freshman crews, will keep up their work until the cold weather forces them to abandon...
...over, labor, willing to compromise on many questions and expecting like concessions from the other side, meets, capital. But capital, which has swallowed far bigger pills in its day, refuses recognition of collective bargaining a principle under which it has been tacitly working many years. This principle labor cannot abandon without losing all for which it has fought so long...
...these reasons the committee has deemed it advisable to abandon the idea for a separate 1920 memorial in the form of a gate of anything else...
With only two weeks remaining before the day of the Freshman jubilee, preparations for the festivities are rapidly progressing. Although work on the interdormitory choruses was late in beginning, and it was found necessary to abandon hopes of a class song, a tentative program for the day has already been arranged. The sale of tickets also has been started and the training of the 1921 Mandolin Club is well under way. In view of the fact that all the profits from the jubilee will be given to the Red Cross, there will be no war tax on tickets. Arrangements...
...demand the right of way on all canals and railroads for the transportation not only of civilian supplies but of war supplies amounts to a denial of Dutch neutrality. Control of transit is a vital function of every nation. To submit to foreign dictation is to abandon sovereignty. Moreover, the obligation of neutrality demands that Holland refuse any step which will be of direct gain to the enemy in its prosecution of the war. This side of the affair is clear, the laws of nationality and neutrality make the acceptance of the proposal impossible...