Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, will temporarily relinquish his History 5 course next year when he assumes a special teaching post at the University of Leyden in the Netherlands...
...cold, lonely Kuling last winter, the Chinese people knew only that he was meditating on China's fate. Last week, China and the world learned of the decision Chiang had reached. In an effort to lead China farther along the road to democracy, Chiang Kai-shek would relinquish the presidency of his country...
...said recently: "Since the days of Reza Shah,* every private thinks he can become a dictator." But the tribesmen concluded an uneasy truce with the central Government, surrendered a few beloved rifles as a token of good will. Only the Kurds in the north still refused to relinquish their arms, gave Gavam an excuse to say that election was being delayed...
...first to realize that World War I, with its unprecedented mobilization of national economies, had taught countries new economic tricks and controls they would be loth to relinquish. In 1919 he was British financial adviser at Versailles, resigned in mid-conference. The same year, in his eloquent Economic Consequences of the Peace, he told why the peace treaties would be unworkable. So much of what he said then later came true that men began calling him Cassandra...
...only complete security. Neither Albert Einstein's nor Walter Lippmann's chapter succeeds in more than indicating a satisfactory plan for such an organization. But Einstein shows clearly the functions the organization must undertake, while Lippmann sets forth original and cogent evidence that the world is ready to relinquish the concept of national sovereignty. The whole report asserts with great force of logic, if without trimmings of eloquence, that we are either ready to give up national sovereignty, or we are ready for destruction...