Word: cancelations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another Lewis "first," along with two other Negroes, was his admission to the American Bar Association in 1911. At that time the executive committee of the association attempted to cancel the memberships of the three Negroes and a heated dispute resulted in which prominent attorneys led the fight on behalf of Lewis. Although Lewis' membership was not rescinded, until 1943 no other Negro was admitted to the American Bar Association...
...acute shortage of white doves in and around Boston has forced two students to cancel a series of experiments in black magic...
Observers in Australia also spotted the celestial spectacle on Sunday, so the Bloemfontein claim of discovery may be disputed. According to Federer, enough people probably saw the comet at the same time to cancel anyone's right to name it. Future astronomers will probably refer to it as "The Great Comet...
...issues that had not delivered all the circulation expected. It was the first cut by a major magazine since the depression. Though Curtis magazines base their rates on the estimated circulation for six months ahead but do not guarantee the estimate, the Journal felt a "moral obligation" to cancel most of the 7½% rate increase that had helped make its October issue so rich (TIME...
...Pills. Please can I have a chit so that I can get them free?") A few diehard doctors, still hoping that the act would be a bust, were blandly prescribing champagne, oysters, whiskey and rum for their patients-at government expense. Some patients were unreasonable. One physician, forced to cancel his evening office hours because of a difficult, ten-hour delivery, was greeted at his surgery next morning by four threatening hoodlums; he was now a servant of the people, they told him, and he had no right to be away during regular working hours. Some doctors were unpleasant...