Word: canceling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giving way before your threats." Then the judge perfunctorily fined Editor Maurras $13, sentenced him to eight more months in jail. The hatred and fear roused in French Tories by the prospect of Socialist Leon Blum's Government last week served thrifty Paris socialites as an excuse to cancel big weddings and balls "to avoid provoking the Reds." Wealthy children in Paris' swank Pare Monceau marched around chanting derisively: "Blum! Blum! Blum...
...application for the Waiting List at C University Hall. A number of rooms in College dormitories outside the Yard are available for 1936-37. Applications for these rooms should be made at Lehman Hall immediately. Students who have reserved a room in the College dormitories will be allowed to cancel their reservations without change in case they later receive assignment to a room in a House...
...gathered around a square little building with slanting roof and shiny coat of white & orange paint. A driving windstorm had kept many a countryman from attending the ceremony. A storm of public ridicule had presumably made the State Health Commissioner and an Assistant Surgeon General of the U. S. cancel their scheduled appearances. Occasion was the dedication of the 100,000th sanitary pit privy built by relief workers in West Virginia...
...designing, confident that style piracy had been effectively outlawed. As the Guild's power increased it made rules against special concessions to retailers, forbade sales to associated retailers - such as Associated Merchandising Corp. - who bought in groups, and made it hard for retailers to return goods or cancel orders...
Sirs: If you continue to ignore the decisions of the courts in the State of Illinois, I am going to cancel my subscription. In TIME, Dec. 23 you have an interesting article on the use of the phrase "and/or," and credit the criticism of this expression to one of the justices of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. Your files will show that two years ago I wrote you a letter calling your attention to the use of this abomination in one of your editorials on medicine, and I told you then that this phrase had been held to be "against...