Word: withdrawnness
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...only one student has bothered to apply to this committee, and he has "withdrawn" his application. In the past, almost an entire class of 16 on occasion used the transfer privilege...
...back, happily telephoned his good news to his People's Party headquarters in Vienna. Promise & Price. In those four hectic days, the Russians briskly disposed of all obstacles they themselves had raised in ten years. They made real concessions. The big one: agreement that all occupation troops be withdrawn immediately after the state treaty is signed, "and in any case not later than...
Sense of the House. Postwar Oxford in the early '20s found mustachioed Captain Eden a serious young man, diffident and withdrawn. "He was one of the quiet ones," a college servant recalls. Eden collected modern paintings, walked off with first class honors in Persian and Arabic. On one occasion during World War II, he startled a regiment of Turkish regulars by addressing them in their own vernacular...
...equally clear that the United States cannot afford, for military and strategic considerations, to allow the island of Formosa to fall into unfriendly hands. For this reason, the seventh fleet which now guards the Straits of Formosa cannot be withdrawn, since it is the West's only guarantee of the island's security. The most reasonable solution to this apparent dilemma would be one which the British have suggested--a U.N. administered plebiscite on Formosa, by which the seven million natives would be allowed to determine their own ruler for the first time since Japanese occupation. Although a plebiscite might...
...hardly likely that freshmen would avoid Dillon Field House and the Indoor Athletic building if the requirement were withdrawn. Over 60 percent of upperclassmen participate in some form of House athletics and an additional ten to fifteen errant exercise regularly-quite voluntarily. Neither the athletic program not freshman health, then, would suffer if the requirements were withdrawn entirely. At least for men holding term-time jobs, an exemption or requirement reduction in physical training is both well deserved and needed...