Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon, "Jack" Fuess sliced his way with more than his customary abandon around the country-club golf course, allowed only an occasional dreihunderttausend Donner-wetter to escape his lips. At 62, Fuess thought that he and Andover both needed a change. His old friend Lewis Perry had resigned as principal of nearby Phillips Exeter Academy,* and that had helped decide him. "My generation has done its job. If I stayed here long enough, I'd become...
Legend and the mating instinct have it that the winner of the hoopla will be the first to abandon the primrose path for the middle aisle...
...logic is twofold; first, the graduate work is in many respects repetitive, and therefore the student might profit more by exploring other fields of study, secondly, the graduate work, though repetitive, is quite different in its approach, and the student must frequently abandon his theoretical concepts in the face of the practical application, or else reconcile the two. For graduate study in Economics proper, undergraduate concentration is of course essential...
Great Britain is, as yet, unwilling to abandon Empire Preference, although she heartily agrees to over-all tariff reductions. Her reluctance to meet America all the way is based, in part, upon her uncertainty as to whether our tariffs will again become a political football as well as her fear that American prosperity is at best an ephemeral thing. But Britain is also overly sensitive of her unaccustomed role of debtor nation and tends to keep a too watchful eye on bank balances, at the expense of economic initiative...
...runs down into the cathedral to serve 7 o'clock Mass. At 8:30 he wanders into the Zócalo (the city's chief square) looking for assistants. If there are no idlers about, he calls on his friends the trolley-car motormen, who not infrequently abandon their cars in mid-street, at the height of the rush hour, and climb into the tower to man the bell ropes...