Word: withdrew
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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When the town fell, he withdrew to his deanship at Ireland, embraced the Irish cause, and hurled her rage and wrongs against England. It was at this time that his "Gulliver's Travels" appeared. - beautiful, vivacious, intense in realization and grotesque in combination. Yet, though his best-known work, it is not his most meritorious nor his worst representative...
...Tuesday night Thomas G. E. Frenchard was elected captain of Princeton's eleven for the season of 1893. The other candidate was Vincent, but he finally withdrew and the captaincy was offered to King. who refused...
...Saturday afternoon the captain of next year's eleven was elected by the vote of all the regular eleven and two substitutes, Shea and Mason. There were at first four candidates, Waters, Upton, Emmons, and Lake. The last two withdrew in the order named and in the final ballot Waters was elected by a vote of eight to three against Upton...
...necessary, but that it had not been found necessary to transfer them. We were also told that the Overseers had suggested that two more men be added to each club table, but the Board had refused to do so, stating reasons with which the Overseers concurred and subsequently withdrew their suggestions. We were wrongly informed on these questions, and it was far from our purpose to cast any reflection on the Board of Directors, which we firmly believe to be working for the satisfaction of the members of the hall and the Overseers...
Under such circumstances Harvard did not see fit to complete arrangements, whereupon the Yale delegates said that they did not desire to consider any other proposition and then withdrew from the meeting...