Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government ended a long period of negotiation (TIME, Aug. 13) in which Secretary of State Hughes tried to make arrangements for searching rum ships which remain outside the three-mile limit. The British Government had little objection to helping America make itself dry, but it was entirely disinclined to relinquish the three-mile limit for territorial waters. Its reasons for this pertained purely to naval strategy in European waters...
...acquainted with a man who was working in a war production plan in New England and who, for certain remarks he made, was indicted. He went to his employer, stated that he had better get his time card and await arrest, and he found that his employer refused to relinquish his services until the moment of his arrest...
Pashitch is Serbia's veteran politician and chiefly remembered in Western Europe for his connection with the arch-schemer Venizelos in forming the Balkan League. Pashitch was formerly a radical, but since his rise to power he has been gradually forced to relinquish his radical tendencies in favor of conservatism...
...Robinson stands in definite contrast to Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, who will not relinquish the Republican leadership. Mr. Lodge is ultra-conservative and a sectionalist. His policies are much the same as those he expressed when he first came to the Senate 30 years...
Penn State, which maintained the leadership prior to last week in the number of points scored, was forced to relinquish its position to the Army, which by its 90 to 0 landslide over Bowdoin leaped into first place with a total of 315 points. Williams also, due to its 50-14 rout of Wesleyan, went ahead of Penn State, showing an aggregate of 305 against the State...