Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year. This asset was liquidated by the spendings abroad of U. S. tourists who, in national economic effect, had a free trip over and back. When the stockmarket crashed, its effect was felt even in Switzerland where resort bookings for U. S. tourists were heavily cancelled, U. S. children withdrawn from Swiss schools...
...Soviet Russia has staged one major punitive raid into one Chinese province (Manchuria) and then withdrawn all her troops (TIME...
...supported in 1921-22 and 1922-23 by the commonwealth Fund, which granted $16,000 in each of these years to the Harvard Graduate School of Education for this purpose. The Commonwealth Fund limited its grants for educational research, on principle, to two years, and it has since withdrawn from this field of activity altogether. From 1923-24 through 1928-29 the School supported the study out of its unrestricted income, and the University has made from the Milton Fund two grants at $2500 each to meet special needs in connection with the study...
...uncommon to apply at the delivery desk for a dozen books and find ten of them reported missing or otherwise withdrawn. Undergraduates have been known not to return books at all, and, refusing to replace the book, have enjoyed their library privilege unimpaired. The answer, "I don't understand why the book is missing from the stacks; I put it on the delivery desk a week ago," has cleared more than one guilty undergraduate, and freed him from further embarrassment...
Even granting that the borrower's intentions are of the best, his memory may not always serve him in questions relating to the number of books withdrawn and the number returned. Excessive confidence is placed not only upon the character but upon the mentality of the borrower...