Word: reverting
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Giving the textile mills as an example, Dunlop said that the Board had power (Regulation 8) to revert to a previous date--in the case of steel back to October...
Vladimir Nabokov, visiting lecturer on Slavic Languages and Literature, and Theodore Morrison, professor of English, both agreed that critics would not revert to a literal interpretation of the novel now that a French vessel has reported the capture of a real albino sperm whale...
...first and most powerful impression of Russia was one of fantastic decrepitude; almost everything - roads and railways, buildings new or old - is in a state of the utmost decay. Leaving Moscow, the main roads are of tar for a certain distance, and then either dwindle into narrow strips, or revert to broken and undulating cobbles and to earth...
...people of South Africa . . . undoubtedly do in some cases take advantage of, and abuse, the native, but on the other hand, what would the natives do if the white man pulled out? ... They would rapidly revert to the jungle again, and go back to their old tribal warfares, and the rapid killing off of their own kind...
...entire lease in alternate blocks, usually in checkerboard pattern. The company keeps half the blocks, and pays land rent to the farm owners (up to $1,500 a well), plus a government royalty averaging 14% on all oil produced. The alternate blocks of the checkerboard revert to the government. These government-held squares, some of them adjoining producing wells, are a lure to smaller or more cautious companies that dare not risk the big gamble on unproved land. The blocks are auctioned to the highest bidders, and have brought as much as $1,800,000 for 160 acres...