Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...giant cranes were towed to the spot but a heavy sea came up and they were obliged to retire some distance until it should abate. Hope waned: 34 officers and men were in the hulk below. Hope was very dim. Thirty-four corpses? It was only unwillingness to abandon hope that made the would-be rescuers persist...
...Kemal Pasha, President-Dictator of Turkey, was quoted as follows: "Our army is ready and its morale is excellent. If we should have to fight-which I don't think likely-we shall certainly not shirk the issue. . . . Mosul is Turkish . . . nothing can change that . . . we will never abandon that view." 3) In London feeling ran high against Premier Baldwin "for not having read an English paper during his recent vacation at Aix-les-Bains." It was implied that he had let the British representatives who dealt with the Turks at Geneva get very much out of hand...
Oxford Men Outgoing. Out of New York harbor sailed the 1925 detachment of Rhodes scholars, bound for Oxford. They had attended a farewell dinner at the Harvard club, heard discussed a tentative plan of the Rhodes trustees to abandon the present method of selecting two scholars every three years from each state and substituting a method whereby the quota would be allotted from six to eight districts into which the country would be divided. The object: a more representative group of students. Details of the plan were not published, nor were the dinner speeches of President Frank P. Aydelotte...
...majority of Conservative Premiers, who the Liberals claim have stuffed the Senate with old-foggyism. They will ask the electorate for power to "end or mend" the Senate. Conservatives will maintain that Solons of the Senate's present calibre would not stoop to campaign for their seats, would abandon the Senate to featherbrains, if not honored as they deserve for life...
...post-War Adventures: 1) 1918- Decided to abandon Rumania. Apprehended, as his troops were returning through Hungary, by the Hungarian Government, which had promised France to incarcerate him on Hungarian soil if he cciuld be caught. 2) 1918-19-Successively interned in various Hungarian chateaux, usually with a French guard, which thwarted his numerous attempts to escape. 3) 1919-Permitted to return to Germany by the Supreme War Council of the Peace Conference, "on account of his advanced age." (He was then 70.) 4) 1920-Appeared in the Allies list of "War Criminals". 5) 1920-25-Inveterate Monarchist protagonist...