Word: rescindment
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Further discussion of the proposed war memorial must start with a recognition of the actual situation. The Corporation has voted to accept a War Memorial Chapel; it shows no disposition to rescind this action. A continuation of arguments against the chapel can only serve to emphasize the unfortunate fact that the future memorial to Harvard's war dead will not represent the ideal of a united Harvard...
...eligibility out of the registrar's office so that nobody could keep tabs on him? In Chicago the athletic committee of the Western Conference questioned two professors this way and that. After a while they closed the door and talked over Iowa's petition that the committee rescind its motion, adopted last May, barring Iowa from Big Ten athletics after Jan. 1. They decided that, since Iowa had not removed the players originally objected to, Iowa could stay...
...After five days of this wanton decapitation General Li Pao-chang posted up a bland proclamation: "I am touched by the numerous executions by my subordinates. They were prompted thereto by my orders to execute on the spot, without question and without trial. This order I now rescind...
Last week the issue was again settled. The Senate voted, 59-10, to table Senator Trammell's resolution which would rescind last year's acceptance of the World Court. Said Senators: "We do not wish to waste time discussing it." On the heels of this vote came reports that Great Britain and two other nations had refused to accept the U. S. reservations. A coincidence is always a matter of some importance. Senators issued brief hosannas...
...criticism! I tell you, it is mighty discouraging. But I know that Mr. King and other members of the Business School who are laboring under the same misapprehension will, now that they understand the fine motives which inspired the Lampoon to this beneficent act, be more than ready to rescind their criticism and counter with gratitude to their benefactors. Talbot Wegg...