Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They persuaded a state legislator to push through a bill to limit the Rollins board of trustees to citizens of Florida, a measure which would automatically oust most of the anti-Wagner trustees. But before Governor Fuller Warren got around to signing the bill, the legislator was persuaded to withdraw it. Then 15 trustees met at the college at Winter Park, reaffirmed their decision to drop Wagner and to appoint Art Professor Hugh F. McKean acting president in his place...
Tomorrow being June 6, the first Wednesday in June and the second in exam period, the editors will withdraw to the stacks of Widener and the alcoves of Lamont. The presses will not roll again till Thursday, June 7, but, then, no news is good news...
When the U.N. forces whipped into the Chinese rear areas, Wang got the chance he had been waiting for. When orders came to withdraw, he slipped into the bush and started moving. He had believed the American leaflets which promised him decent treatment. He worked down into a valley, then over a hill, saw American troops advancing, and walked toward them in the open, with his hands up, as the leaflet had told...
...deal by which a syndicate headed by Louis Lurie, a San Francisco realtor, hoped to buy control of Warner Brothers (TIME, May 14) fell through last week. Explained President Harry Warner: "We could not withdraw from the great undertaking that has been so vital a part of our lives...
Only one Crimson varsity golfer qualified for the finals in two major tournaments over the weekend. Mitch Rosenholtz shot a 77 on Friday to enter the field of 16 in the New England Intercollegiate match at Oakley Country Club, but had to withdraw from the finals the next two days in order to take medical school examinations...