Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Auctioneer C. W. Harrison climbed up behind his desk, rapped with his gavel. "We regret that His Royal Highness has had to relinquish the sport of which he was so fond," he began, "but we admire his patriotic action at a time when additional duties devolve upon him through the king's illness-it goes to the heart...
...Baptist Meeting House, midway down the Hill, they will doff mortar boards and one of the men will relinquish the truncheon of his authority. The other will catch it up. And so will pass a famed figure in U. S. educational circles ? Doctor William Herbert Perry Faunce, president of Brown University...
...fact, he threatened to resign. The reason was that Minister of War M. Paul Painleve would not relinquish control of military aviation, and Minister of the Navy M. Georges Leygues would not give up his hold on naval aviation. Between the two M. Eynac found he would have to struggle to achieve the full powers of his new office...
After seven sweltering days of conference in Indianapolis, the Policy Committee of the United Mine Workers of America last week voted to accept what was called "Labor's greatest defeat in years." The question was, and had been for some time, whether to relinquish to district vote the authority long exercised by the United Mine Workers' national officers over wage-agreements in the bituminous coal fields...
...Manhattan, she joined the San Carlo Opera Company, with which she sang Siebel in Faust. Later she became the understudy for more noteworthy performers; of late, a chorus girl, a hanger on at rehearsal halls and an ofttime entertainer or hostess at night clubs, Isobel Stone was compelled to relinquish the idea of a rent-paying existence. Luckily one Gus Clark offered her his dingy and dilapidated float on which she was discovered last week in a state of great and irritable depression which she expressed in this fashion...