Word: canceling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whereas Mrs. Ferguson's majority was only 90,000). He has attacked the record of the Highway Commission, claiming that it has spent 20 millions in a few months, and that it let contracts to high-bidders instead of low-bidders. He demanded that the Commission cancel 36 contracts it had made. The Commission declined. The husband of the Governess is declared to be very close to the Commissioners, even to sit in at their meetings and make decisions. The fight is really between him and Mr. Moody. There is no Klan issue involved because Moody's anti-Klan attitude...
...would never have been allowed to come near enough to exhibit her Hellenic proportions to western eyes. The State Department would have seen to that. Realizing that the female of the species can create commotion too communistic for democratic hearts to bear, the gentlemen at Washington very cavalierly cancel the Countess Karolyis visit here. On foreign soap boxes she must stand, not on the 99 plus percent pure cubes of these United States. If there is to be any propagandizing it must be native born. Even the hot air must be national...
...events, may I add my appreciation for what you are doing. Nothing could persuade me to cancel my subscription...
...purely a mechanical operation requiring no literary ability." For it seems to me that more cleverness, more brains, go into the composition of a single issue of TIME than any other journal I know. It's so bright, for one thing, that I have definitely decided to cancel my subscription to "our leading humorous, satirical weekly" in its favor, coming to this decision upon reading your delectable excerpts from Harold Bell Wright's latest classic...
...Dominions because of the large number of unemployed seeking work. But it was bad enough. The ports of London, Southampton, Hull, Avon-mouth and Swansea were wholly or partly tied up. The strike was spreading to Bristol and Liverpool. Even some of the Channel steamers were compelled to cancel sailings...