Word: renewal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement which London editors unanimously called "ill timed," Mr. Thomas threatened that if the oath is abolished Great Britain will retaliate by refusing to renew the tariff preferences she now grants to the Free State. Obviously the timing of this threat was such as to enrage the Irish Senate just before it voted. It increased the chances that the bill would pass. Quietly jubilant in Dublin, teacherish President de Valera dryly said...
...date of the dance has been chosen to coincide with the night before the Harvard-Yale hockey game so that Yale men who attended the R.O.T.C. Camp Fort Ethan Allen may renew acquaintances made during the encampment of the Harvard-Yale unit. Members of the executive committee are now trying to procure a nationally known orchestra for the occasion and the definite arrangements will be given out later...
...Last week President Samuel Insull warned the Civic's guarantors, whose five-year pledge ends with this season, that unless they renew pledges for $500,000 there may be no opera next year...
...result of that failure, Gandhi is today lodged in an Indian jail, from which he plans to renew the struggle for freedom. Very likely the resistance of the British Empire will be the more bitter, from the fear that an independent India is perhaps ultimately inevitable. But that it will come very soon is more doubtful. On the Mahatma's return to India, if press reports were accurate, the fire of enthusiasm was less strong among his followers. Coupled with the smothered hostility of the Moslems, the end of the Round Table Conference may well be the beginning of bitter...
Furthermore, it given the opportunity, all too rarely offered, to renew in a pleasant way one's rusty acquaintance with the French language, as she is really spoke, and not as she is inflicted upon suffering students of French...