Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bold of speech, he will now take prominent place on the political battlements of the capital. Briefly, his duty will be to eye the Hoover administration; to look for, mark, proclaim its errors; to direct against it the archery of partisan criticism until next election. Chairman Raskob prepared to withdraw into the Democracy's inner keep, there to plot great political stratagems for the future, out of the public eye. Said he firmly: "I have no intention of resigning...
...crowning event the Council announces that Harvard is to withdraw from the inter-collegiate league. Comparing at a time when Harvard has just completed a not too successful season in the league where it has formerly held many championships, this resignation is open to unpleasant interpretation. The step is explained on the ground that Harvard needs freedom for experimentation and innovation. Others may perhaps recall that the number of league debates is limited, and that outside of these contests Harvard would still have opportunity for plenty of experimentation. Furthermore, to keep the league debates as a conservative balance against radical...
...Harvard Debating Council voted last night to withdraw from the Eastern Intercollegiate Debating League. Although no formal statement was issued by the Council, it was ascertained that the University speakers made the move in order to be independent of the policies of the League, which were characterized as being too strongly marked with the purpose of winning...
...queer quirk in the whole situation was that Japan, which for months has stubbornly kept an interventionary force in Shantung, disregarding incessant Nationalist howls of protest, suddenly came to terms last week with the shaky and harassed Nationalist Government and entered into a signed agreement to withdraw her slit-eyed marines by June 1. It is common knowledge that Japan has financed and favored Marshal Chang, the captor of Chefoo, but it would be news indeed if the Imperial Government con- siders Chang already strong enough to see that Japanese interests and colonists in Shantung come to no harm during...
...Very well, Messieurs, let us be practical! One hundred thousand men leave 10,000 of their number dead upon the ground and acknowledge themselves beaten. They retreat before the victors who have lost as many men, if not more. Neither one side nor the other side knows when they withdraw what its own losses have been nor how heavy those of the opposing force. Therefore, it is not on account of material damage, still less from any possible computation of the figures, that the losers give up the struggle. The will to conquer sweeps all before it. There...