Word: canceling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this might seem academic, except that France has already laid down a building program which the British admiralty has announced will force Britain to take the escalator unless the French cancel part of their program before then, and this Prime Minister Tardieu has said over and over again France will...
...State. Few were surprised. Having been defeated by two votes in the Dail Eireann fortnight ago, President Cosgrave had resigned (TIME, April 7), but his chief opponent, long-nosed Eamon de Valera thought so little of his own chances of succeeding Mr. Cosgrave that he did not bother to cancel his present U. S. tour...
...slow to retaliate was the Texas Legislature. It adopted a resolution calling on loyal Texans to boycott all Wisconsin manufactures, to buy nothing from that State. Texans began to cancel orders for Wisconsin plumbing fixtures, Wisconsin washing machines, Wisconsin fountain pens, Wisconsin farm implements...
...Cancel my subscription instantly! I will not have in my house nor in sight of my eyes a magazine that will print the sort of thing which appears on p. 13, col. 1 of this week's issue (TIME, Jan. 20). Are you editors crazy? Do you think you can stay out of prison five minutes if you give currency to such words as these? I'm almost too astounded and shocked to hold my pen and you can see how my hand is shaking...