Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cabinet rank had yet resigned to join his New Party; but from the cabinet there did resign last week his friend Sir Charles Trevelyan, president of the board of education...
...Southern Revolution" at Arequipa (TIME, March 2). No. 2 was the "Naval Coup," when transports loaded with troops to quell the "Southern Revolution" were held up by their battleship escorts and President Sanchez Cerro was forced by navy officers to resign (TIME, March 9). No. 3 last week was the "Military Coup...
...been bickering about it. Last week the Intercollegiate Swimming Association announced that, in spite of complaints, it would not alter the rule making competition in water polo compulsory for member colleges. Immediately appeared editorials in the Yale Daily News and the Daily Princetonian. The Princetonian urged Princeton to resign from the Association. The News accused the Association of sidetracking a resolution to drop the game. Both spoke ominously of injuries, of unhealthfulness...
...right resonance. Some of the tintinnabulations clashed. Beams and bells were shifted. Yankee electricians hopped about trying to adjust a 20th Century U. S. ringing mechanism to Russian antiques. It was exciting! When you are 74 years old. when you have just denied that you are going to resign (as President Lowell did deny last week), you, too. may feel like ringing bells...
Rumors to the effect that Harvard's president would resign have been rife ever since it became apparent that the House Plan was becoming a reality and that President Lowell's educational dream had been realized. In newspaper and academic circles the occasion of his resignation has been placed at several dates all of which would seem to have some especial significance: his seventy-fifth birthday, which comes next December; the culmination of his twenty-fifth year in office, which falls in 1934; or the three-hundredth anniversary of the founding of Harvard, which will be celebrated...