Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the end of summer they will be returned to their respective colleges. For nine months the army will then relinquish all control of them while they finish college and receive their degrees. The government will pay their tuition and room rent...
...purely nominal, for Son Edison has been the chief operating executive. Last week they had traded titles-henceforth, President Charles, Chairman Thomas Alva. Announced their Vice President R. H. Allen: "From now on Thomas A. Edison will more and more pass his time working in his laboratory and will relinquish more and more the administrative duties...
...openly wagered their public offices on the outcome of the election, she to resign as Governess if she failed to beat him by a single vote-he to relinquish his Attorney-Generalship if she beat...
...will be a long time, however, before the Entente will be willing to relinquish the preponderance of power secured at Versailles. But with the expansion of the League its government must become more representative. Meanwhile the postponement of further negotiations to the fall may afford an opportunity for smoothing out present difficulties, and finding a way of admitting Germany on terms which will not be incompatible with the interests of extra-European nations...
...motive power behind all these rumors was a document signed at London (TIME, Dec. 14) by the representatives of Great Britain, Ulster and the Irish Free State. It provides that the boundary between northern and southern Ireland shall remain as at present, and that Britain shall relinquish all claims upon the Free State for payment of Ireland's part of the British War debt. The agreement had been ratified earlier in the week by the British House of Commons and the Ulster Chamber. It awaited only the ratification of the Dáil before becoming operative. Why then...