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Word: cedes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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First?That the State cede to the Holy See a plot of territory west of the Vatican, including a section of the Rome-Viterbo Railway and the old St. Peter's Station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: Concordat? | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...what can happen to a district happily situated geographically. New York's tides fluctuate only four to five feet.* That helps shipping. The terrain changes practically not at all. Travel routes naturally converge toward the city. He recommended that the States of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut cede land for the formation of a State of Manhattan. The natural Manhattan area now contains 9,000,000 people, will in 40 years carry twice as many. The Russell Sage Foundation in Manhattan has been making a study towards this same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Glasgow | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...glass and bottle at hand than the other half would of studying under any circumstances. The have the happy faculty of taking nothing seriously, least of all football: a virus of which Yale might do well to absorb a little. For intrinsic vigor and communal health we must cede ourselves the plam: Eli is in his prime, and John, some years older, has passed has. But his decline has something of the splendor of Imperial Rome. Yale Alumni Weekly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...week's political sensation was a proposal by Deputy Outrey that France cede Cochin-China to the U. S. as payment in full for the Franco-U. S. debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Decrees | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

...which France can pay part of her debt is to cede to us her possessions in the West Indies, which are of no use to her, but which would be of inestimable value to us as outposts to protect our coast and to protect the Panama Canal. Every one of them, to borrow a phrase of Napoleon, is a cannon pointed at the heart of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Debt Wrangle | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

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