Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME'S press ever laid a claim to that virtue called completeness, relinquish it immediately! I was shocked, horrified, nauseated, disgusted, not to say alarmed and surprised at a certain small but ever so noticeable "faux pas" in your issue of July 16, where, on page 9, col. i, under the heading "Bandwagon" (O how it pains me to set this down!) you committed the horrible blunder of referring to Senator James Thomas (Tom Tom) Heflin -without (terribly so) the usual and customary appositional phrase which begins, "who mortally hates...
...have had the pleasure of "selling" TIME to more than one personage, among them Dr. C. C. Wu, famed representative of Chinese Nationalism. With real regret I relinquish the agency, and give up reading my favorite magazine...
Observers recalled that part of Shantung was held by Germany prior to the World War, and thereafter seized by the Japanese who were eventually compelled by the Powers to relinquish Shantung and sign the Washington Treaties setting forth the sacredness of China's territorial integrity...
...Rivera's statement merely noted that Sir Austen "is a charming host and a clever politician, possessing a truly amazing insight into international affairs. ... I am fast becoming of the opinion that Spain would be better off without her interests there (Morocco) . . . but it is always dangerous to relinquish possessions to another power unless some satisfactory compromise can be arranged. It is that that Sir Austen may arrange...
Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher of Florida, another Democrat, said: "Mr. Morrow, I am sure, has the ability and qualifications required for the position. If he has decided to relinquish private business and devote himself to public interests, he can serve his country and Mexico with happy results in promoting good will, co-operation and eco-nomic conditions to the advantage of all concerned...