Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Love has decided to abandon the "Leviathan," since all Freshmen are well enough trained to row in shell-barges...
...ventilator. Last week's audience had no dancers to explain what was happening or to whom it was happening. They heard only music to express life aboard ship, a hot-blooded tango where the mermaids are supposed to interrupt ship routine, two catchy tunes to convey tropic abandon. Critics suspected that H. P. contained more South American hotcha than it did authentic Indian music...
...York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. went into court twice last week in the matter of losing railway mileage. In New Haven, Conn., trustees of New England's No. 1 railroad filed a petition in Federal court seeking authority to ask the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to abandon 204.34 mi. of track in New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut because it was unprofitable.* In Providence, R. I., the New Haven was an interested party in the prosecution and conviction of Joseph Gemma, 40, for "stealing a railroad in broad daylight." A Superior court jury found the operator...
...gamble to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's government, which considers that if it can show definite tangible gains for Britain in lessened risk of war, in lessened taxes for keeping up the arms race, in getting Germany into a Western air pact and in inducing her to abandon her own ruinous war economy, the British voters would not turn it out of office...
Gauguin did not suddenly abandon his family and go off to seek his painting fortune. But his art became more & more demanding of his time and interest, until one day, when he was 33, he informed Mette he had left the bank for good. She was thunderstruck. They had to move out of Paris to save money. After eight restless months in Rouen, Mette suggested they go to Denmark while they still had enough for the trip. Gauguin agreed. In Denmark his in-laws received him coldly, looked down on him still further when Mette had to start giving French...