Word: divestment
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...disturbances, said that they plainly showed the state of feeling of the German people. He asked the Ambassador to tell King George that he was very proud of his titles of Field Marshal in the British Army and of Admiral in the British Navy, but that he must now divest himself of them...
...will readily understand that it is not now my intention to prejudge the issues which remain to be developed in this investigation. I recognize that you are entitled to a full and fair hearing. But as there is no way by which you can divest yourself of the interest you have personally in the investigation, I can see no way but for you to retire as Attorney General, and I am therefore compelled to request your resignation...
...genius is in knowing how to keep his hands off. He encourages, suggests, advises rarely, but always the children draw and paint only what they feel. "If it were possible," says he, "I would have my school on a desert island in mid-Atlantic." He is trying to divest them of mere imitativeness, of the veneer and decadence of a routine civilization. As a result the children produce works of unspoiled vigor, naive insight and not a little humor. They are singularly untroubled by the isms and vagaries of modernist Art. There are fancy and fantasy, of course...
...losing ground, but the fall of the republicans will not destroy the republic. the anti-republicans, composed of monarchists and imperialists, see a possibility of coming into power without revolution, and this turns them away from conspiracy against the government. If they should come into power they will not divest themselves of the immense patronage of the government and the ability to govern themselves in favor of a pretender to the crown, who would cast them aside as soon as he dared. The trouble with the republican party is that it is too unwieldy. It has a majority of over...
...explosions which make the college a formidable nuisance to the neighborhood by keeping people awake and imperilling such as are seriously ill; and the danger to trees and buildings from lighting bonfires in the yard. Now I think it will be apparent to everyone that the faculty cannot practically divest itself of responsibility for either of these evils if they occur. Whatever system of government it may adopt, it is responsible to the citizens of Cambridge on the one hand, and to the Corporation of the college on the other; and whatever votes it may pass, votes of prehibition...