Word: renews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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France. Henry Berenger, new French Ambassador to the U.S., was expected momentarily to renew informal discussions with Secretary Mellon on the French Debt...
...than half, of 40 millions. It was suddenly in a position to outbid any other museum for the world's masterpieces. Never in life had Mr. Munsey evinced interest in the Metropolitan beyond a perfunctory $10-per-annum subscription such as most prominent Manhattanites instruct their secretaries to renew automatically. Few of the trustees knew him and none intimately. He did not collect works of art privately. Yet without requesting that his money be called "The Munsey Fund" or assigning ends to which it was to be applied, he went down as leader of the following list of donors...
...Britain to renew her treaty obligation to protect Irak for an" other 25 years, unless within that time Irak is admitted as a member of the League...
...body of undergraduates, football is a cohesive force and represents dramatically the ideals of the college; but present overemphasis tends to give it a false importance which-distorts the students' sense of collegiate values. For alumni, football is a magnet, drawing graduates back to the college and serving to renew their interest in the affairs of the college; but present overemphasis tends to confine their interest to the maintenance of a winning football team, and to crowd out of their minds completely matters of larger educational importance; and here is, perhaps, the most serious evil of the present situation...
...tired of reading "came the President," "walked the ambassador," "sneezed the violent Senator from Oklahoma," and so on, that I almost hesitate to renew the subscription...