Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reader for the deaf of New England these many years, has been their acting minister the past six months. He takes pains in bringing to all his people the word of God. And this the deaf appreciate because, deprived of a sense and often mocked at, they tend to withdraw from more normal associates. They all too constantly fear a neighbor may be gossiping about them...
...contestants is unworthy of performance, as our Glee Club says it is, why has it taken our Glee Club two or three months to discover its shortcomings? A quiet resignation at the beginning of the college years might have been effected without conspicuous loss of dignity, but to withdraw in the middle of the year, giving as a reason therefore that a song acceptable to all the other clubs is not good enough for Harvard is certainly not cricket. Further, to characterize as "mush" a composition by Horatio Parker, whose ideals and achievements in music placed him in the front...
...Basil's distinguished counsel, Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett, K. C. B., then arose and demanded that the bobby who had accused his client be ejected from the room "because he is smirking and making grimaces." The Court ordered the now straight-faced policeman to withdraw...
...labor matters attacked Greek Letter Societies, voted for the United States entry into the League of Nations and the World Court, listened to villifications of contemporary religious education, listened to reports attacking the American Defense Society the National Security League, and the Klan, and more astonishing still, voted to withdraw support from foreign missions so that the money might be used to encourage intelligent birth control...
...Corporation replied that the song announced was an arbitrary selection and that Harvard must either sing it or withdraw. Under these circumstances and in view of the position which the Glee Club has consistently maintained with reference to the Intercollegiate contest since 1921, the Executive Committee felt that Harvard must withdraw from the contest. The matter was discussed most amicably with the Corporation. The decision had the approved of Dr. Davison and of the Graduate Advisory Committee of the Glee Club...