Word: forfeits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coached by Dr. Goebbels, the German Press explained elaborately how to vote. There is only one circle at the top of the ballot-the Nazi circle. The thing to do is to put a cross in that circle since "anyone failing to do so will simply forfeit his vote. His ballot will be declared invalid...
...quite possible that this nomenclature may precipitate a flurry of sociable controversy. How, for example, is one to state whether the lefthanded keeper of the keys is to be Mr. Endicott, Mr. Saeger, or, to proceed, Mr. Westcott? And who, pray, in the Widener terminological maze would forfeit his mellifluous title for the Charter and Seal...
Should the prognostications of the New York Times and Herald-Tribune be correct. Harvard must soon succumb to the rebirth of the cycling fad. Then will Dunster forfeit the grandeur of isolation, and then, too, will Jefferson and Mallinckrodt be near enough the Charles to permit Winthrop and Eliot to breakfast in leisure. Radcliffe and Harvard will take a Sunday afternoon spin on a "bicycle built for two," while the more ambitious undergraduate will in one short hour pedal to Wellesley. If Harvard is to be Anglicized, the process may as well as not be complete. The Master of Lowell...
...took up politics. When however, both the city editor of the Boston Post, and the managing editor of the Boston Globe refused to exonerate him publicly from leading the movement to "Buy American" he was compelled by the pressure of academic engagements o give up his career, and forfeit his life for the benefit of this creators...
...Colonel Luke Lea and his son Luke Jr., Tennessee publishers convicted of conspiracy to defraud an Asheville, N. C. bank, were ordered arrested last week after they failed to surrender to serve jail sentences. Buncombe County courts declared forfeit their $50,000 bonds, written by New Orleans' Union Indemnity Co. (now in receivership). Meanwhile in Nashville, Tenn., the Leas prepared to fight extradition, had a lawyer sleeping in their big house to spike any attempt by North Carolina officials to kidnap them. Few days later the Leas suddenly disappeared. Reports that they had been arrested in the mountains...