Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slander and disorganize liberal movements in academic circles. There is more danger from such forces outside the academic world than from individual college officials to whom academic freedom is in Mr. Greene's words, "a matter of taste." And there is the further danger that we will voluntarily relinquish our freedom by adopting a supine indifference before those forces...
...before she uttered a word, she had four strikes against her: she was a woman, a Socialist, a foreigner by birth, an empire-hater by conviction. "Enemies of peace," she cried, "are not all in Germany or Russia. They are right here. They are those who refuse to relinquish vested interests. . . . That word empire is connected with a history of horror and slaughter. I hope to see it disappear from our vocabulary...
...tail feathers (see p. 23), but little Finland last week made no move to abandon her preparations for the 1940 Olympic Games, into which she has already sunk $10,000,000. Despite rumors that the Games might be transferred to Detroit, the proud Finns announced that they would not relinquish them until the last possible moment...
...talk about the munition industry dragging this country into war is incredible fiction. . . .This country went into the World War to vindicate its rights on the high seas, and now to relinquish these rights through fear of Hitlerism is to dishonor our dead. . . . The proposition is utterly destitute of courage and moral sense. . . . One of my sons was gassed and the other was a combatant soldier. . . . But a nation without spirit or an elevated soul is as bad as a derelict on the seas. . . . This country should not be content simply to eat and sleep and go to the movies...
...Short Notice. Astounding as it was that Adolf Hitler, exponent of Pan-Germanism, should relinquish so lightly one of the oldest European outposts of German commerce and culture, the details of this mass migration were even more amazing. The Balts first learned that they were to be sent back to Germany on a Saturday, when German diplomats first broached the subject to the Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian Governments. On Sunday a special German Commission to arrange details arrived at Riga. On Friday ten German merchant vessels, the first contingent of 42 specially chartered ships, steamed into Riga Harbor to take...