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Word: cancels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business. He offers marriage, and for the first time they sit down soberly and try to find out about each other. He has been wed before, divorced, has a child in Colorado. These revelations suddenly turn a carefree romance into a very serious, grown-up affair. They decide to cancel out the whole thing. But chance and another cablegram offer the two lovers a second opportunity. This time they embrace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 29, 1932 | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...will please cancel my subscription and refund the amount due. There appeared an article in the very first issue I received after subscribing, which illustrates ... so plainly that it is impossible for me to lend my support to your institution, in face of the fact that the general idea of your magazine is commendable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 22, 1932 | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...insidious force of the depression, having laid low the nation's economic structure, moves on to attack the very foundations of American democracy. The White House has announced that due to the pressure of relief-work, Mr. Hoover will be forced to cancel all hand-shaking receptions, a sad blow to Kiwanis and Rotary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "MR. HOOVER, I BELIEVE?" | 2/11/1932 | See Source »

...Bullfinch. The Masseys pay off their social debts with a lecture on the Ceramics, Basketwork and Tribal Life of the Ogilluwaya Indians. All in all, everybody has enjoyed the summer. Everybody has made so many humorous mistakes and mutual blunders that, like checks at the clearing house, they cancel each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mary's Neckers | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...plain fact the University's "regularly followed principle" is to cancel specific gifts by increasing appropriations to other departments. Practically, it divides its general funds in accordance with greatest need. That is the natural outcome of the logical insoluble contradiction between the claims of general University welfare and the moral claims of those who give unrestricted funds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RESTRICTED GIFTS | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

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