Word: cancels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...functions that is proffered them. While celebrated visitors are flattered, no doubt, and gratified by the thunder-showers of attention with which they are received, they are liable to postpone their next visit indefinitely, if, as was the case with Mme. Curie, they are forced after a week to cancel all appointments on account of complete exhaustion, and have their hands shaken so much that they must wear them in slings...
...Confronted by the inadequacy of the League of Nations; by the somewhat high-handed apportionment of the various mandates and former colonial possessions; the every-day American feels that European and domestic interests do not coincide as well as has been proclaimed. To the suggestion that the United States cancel its war loans as a contribution to the common cause, the tax-payer remains obdurately opposed, inasmuch as he has nothing to gain from the spoils, he feels that he has already given his share...
...match with the Baltimore Country Club was called because of darkness with the score tied. It was found necessary to cancel the match with the Philadelphia Cricket Club because of rain...
...Germany's indemnity hangs heavy on her head--it is a huge indemnity. Would she not leap at a chance to cancel it? Moral influence would be no deterrent; and furthermore Germany's desire for world domination is not gone, nor is it dormant. So evident is it, that in the minds of men of closest perception working amidst the Germans over there is the almost universal conviction that the war ended three months too soon. Germany made the War in an attempt for world domination and she still keeps that ambition in her mind, and adds to it according...
Fortunately, the Republicans will be able to approach the question without constraint since it is now definitely known that President Wilson made no promises at the Peace Conference concerning cancellation of war debts. Nevertheless the air today is full of just such proposals for straightening out the economic situation. Great Britain is considering the cancellation of her loans, amounting to some nine billions, in the event that we take a similar step. As she owes us approximately four billions, her not loss will be about five billions, against our ten; but when it is remembered that our population and wealth...