Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will not abandon my resistance until the . . . pirate invaders . . . assassins of weak peoples . . " are expelled from my country. ... I will make them realize that their crimes will cost them dear. . . . There will be bloody combat...
...much it was to be expected; for the friendly and understanding attitude of such outstanding Romanists as Cardinal Mercier and his successor, who since the war have been periodically conferring with certain Angelicans on the subject of unity, have led us to hope that Rome was about to abandon its medieval intransigence...
...Editors of the Register had expected to announce its appearance within a day or two but because of this disaster, they will be forced to postpone the date of publication if the forms and sheets suffered only slight injury and will abandon it altogether if they find that they are destroyed. A definite announcement probably will be made today...
Died. Father Jean Gerault de la Corgnals, affectionately known as the "priest of the Bayous," rector of St. Thomas's Catholic Church at Pointe a la Hache, La., possessor of the palm of the French Academy; in New Orleans, of pneumonia. When his parishioners refused to abandon their homes after the dynamiting of the Caernarvon levee to save New Orleans in the Mississippi flood, Father Girault stayed with them; became the only judge, jury, priest and doctor for the flooded parish of Plaquemines...
...Inter-collegiate League triangular debates, both of the Harvard debating teams were victorious. The University affirmative team defeated the Wesleyan debaters Saturday night in Paine Hall, while the negative team defeated the Brown speakers in Providence in a debate on the question: "Resolved, That all nations should abandon extraterritorial rights in China". The affirmative team won a unanimous decision, while the negative team won by a vote...