Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...permanent. This is an excellent policy, making a fortuitous coincidental solution to two longstanding problems. In addition to the already overcrowded conditions in the Houses, there is a group of unhappy commuters who want rooms at Harvard; and there is a group who had rooms who were happy to relinquish them...
Plans for the Islamic Society's mosque in Cambridge have come to a stand-still, Islamic Society President Yusif Ibish 3G reported yesterday. A delay in the promised gift of Prince Sadruddin '55, son of the late Aga Khan, has forced the Society to relinquish its proposed site at Darton and Concords Sts., since the Prince held an option on the land...
...operating beyond the three-mile limit. The U.S., said the brief, has always fixed its national boundary at three miles offshore and has urged other nations to do likewise. "Manifestly, state boundaries cannot extend beyond the national boundary. By annexing Texas, the U.S. certainly did not commit itself to relinquish what has been a fundamental cornerstone of its world policy. That would mean in effect that Texas was not annexed to the U.S., but that the U.S. was annexed to Texas...
...Philosophy of the Revolution, he found time to push Egyptian leadership in his "second circle-the continent of Africa.'' Nasser wrote then: "The white man, representing various European nations, is again trying to redivide the map of Africa. We will never in any circumstances be able to relinquish our responsibility to support, with all our might, the spread of enlightenment and civilization to the remotest depths of the jungle...
Good Year Ahead. Last week, vacationing at his small, four-room, co-op apartment at Delray Beach, Fla., Smith said he will now relinquish most of his everyday managing duties, concentrate more on long-range planning and policymaking. Cheered by the stock market's quick snapback and high volume of trading last week (see State of Business), the top man in Wall Street's top brokerage house saw a good year ahead for M.L.P.F. & S. Said he: "Company after company is going to need more money to expand, and they will have to come to Wall Street...