Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business. The situation is extremely delicate and might lead to war between France and Turkey on the smallest inadvertent provocation by local troops. Neither Turkey nor France can afford to risk such an event, which would assuredly wreck the Lausanne conference. Nevertheless, the Turks met the French ultimatum to withdraw troops from the Syrian frontier by increasing their army from 20,000 to 30,000 men, and the French have sent two divisions into Syria...
Owing to the fact that M. I. T. has been obliged to withdraw her crew because of an injury to one of its members, the race between the University and Technology junior crews, scheduled for Saturday, has been cancelled. In order to fill this date the crew management has arranged for the Union Boat Club eight to take on crews B and C over the Henley distance tomorrow...
...delegates and asking them to vote for Mrs. Cook. The reason she gave was that she would not take part in any campaign which was carried out by defamation of character. Amid the uproar Mrs. Cook jumped to her feet. "I see no reason why Mrs. Story should withdraw in my favor, and am perfectly willing to share the [Story] votes with my opponent [Mrs. Hanger...
...Percy Stickney Grant: " I admitted in The Religion of Main Street, published by the New York American Library Service, that I was not the author of my reply to Bishop Manning when he asked that I withdraw my unorthodox statements. The letter of reply was composed by a group of friends...
...Robert College and the Women's College at Constantinople are open, though carrying on with a reduced student body. The International College at Smyrna has just been reopened. The buildings were rifled, but not burned. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (Congregational) has no disposition to withdraw from the Turkish Empire, despite its dangers and handicaps...