Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...String Movement but for a doughty defender of things Protestant, The Chronicle of Poughkeepsie. N. Y. Last week The Chronicle rasped: "It occurs to us that a person who is so little interested in what he has to say to God that he must be artificially prompted would best withdraw from the Divine Presence. It also suggests itself that one might get rid of the rosary and its knotted string imitation by tying strings on his fingers to the number of limes he wished to pray. . . . The only objection would be that it might seem strange to see people coming...
...Varsity and Freshman cross country teams begin their fall season today at 3.30 o'clock in a meet with Holy Cross. M. I. T. was originally scheduled to enter the meet, but was forced to withdraw due to lack of practice...
...This agreement shall continue without limitation, except that any clubs may withdraw after giving one year's written notice to the parties hereto...
...Daladier called a special meeting of the French Cabinet at Rambouillet to discuss the precise measures of disarmament France might be prepared to take in return for the security resulting from international arms control. Meanwhile restive Paris newspapers raised the bugaboo of Germany's threat last year to withdraw from and wreck the Disarmament Conference unless granted "equality of armaments" (TIME, Aug. 1, 1932). Chancellor Hitler-cartooned by Paris Aux Ecoutes as a hawk with swastika talons hovering over the Disarmament Conference dovecote from which peep Chairman Arthur Henderson, Premier MacDonald and M. Paul-Boncour (see cut)-was said...
Chancellor Dollfuss approached the British and French Legations, asked them to withdraw the note. They refused. Promptly he summoned Parliament to extraordinary session, invited the foreign Press, read the entire secret ultimatum, and slapped it down on the rostrum in front of him with the statement that Austria, a sovereign nation, does not answer such notes at all. Four months later Engelbert Dollfuss was in Britain, a darling of the British Press & public during the World Economic Conference. But in the meantime the world had awakened to the folly and menace of Hitlerism. Today no one can pluck the capercailzie...