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Word: canceled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day, in sweltering weather, the party crossed Missouri. Every time that the President appeared on the platform it was in the broiling sun, and he became badly sunburned-especially his lips. So in the afternoon at Kansas City he was obliged to stay indoors and cancel engagements for golf, a review of Boy Scouts and a visit to the War Veterans' Hospital. General Sawyer applied ice packs to the President's lip, so that he might speak in the evening, and Mrs. Harding reviewed the Boy Scouts. After dinner the President spoke on the railroad problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Anabasis | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

Incidents such as that at New Haven are serious, and the tendency revealed is one to be combatted: but unnecessary publicity often does more to encourage than to combat. The policy of the Yale University authorities in threatening to cancel the Freshman crew race was neither well calculated to inculate respect for the sacredness of law and order, not to give a proper impression to the outside world. Athletic eligibility has little to do with a general riot, and threats are usually a sign of weakness. In order to "see ourselves as others see us" we have to look through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RIOTS AND RIGHTS | 6/12/1923 | See Source »

...Chinese General Chamber of Commerce lent its complaining voice to that of the rickshaw experts. It petitioned the Government to cancel the contract on the ground that it would ruin thousands of rickshaw coolies. "Besides, there is foreign money behind the trolley car company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rickshaw vs. Trolley | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

Having at last secured one of the highest priced teams in the country to represent them on the diamond, the members of the lampoon definitely decided at a late hour last night not to cancel their annual baseball game with the CRIMSON, to be held on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. This new step brings to an end the many speculations brought about by the challenge which the lampoon, in a spirit of bravado that was soon after regretted, sent to the CRIMSON Saturday afternoon. The challenge reads as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPY IN DESPAIR AS CRIMSON CALLS BLUFF | 5/16/1923 | See Source »

...Britain and the United States refuse to cancel, France, in order to gain the advantage of number two, must ask from Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Debts and Reparations | 5/12/1923 | See Source »

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