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Word: rescinds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate resistance continued. On Wednesday the undergraduates declared that they would suffer suspension rather than violate their ethical principles by accepting enforced attendance at religious services. In order to save these athletes a mass meeting of the undergraduate body was held, at which it was voted to rescind the vote of resistance taken on Monday. While the leaders of the movement do not admit, that their cause is lost, they have decided to abandon their resistance until the entire student body can support the movement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PREFER CHAPEL ATTENDANCE TO LOSS OF STAR ATHLETES | 12/8/1923 | See Source »

...That General Wood's refusal to rescind penalties for delayed payment of taxes in regions devastated by locusts and typhoons has aroused the Filipinos to action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Magpie and Martinet? | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

...York Tribune, says: " There have been few things that hurt the Administration so much as the disclosure that liquor was being sold on the ships owned and operated by the United States Shipping Board." The President ordered that to cease some time ago, and now to rescind that order would be to open himself once more to criticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Dry, Regardless | 5/12/1923 | See Source »

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