Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Council approval of a plan for sports reform does not mean, however, that most colleges and universities will abandon spring practice this year. Hugh C. Willett president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, said last night, "The action taken by the American Council on Education will have no immediate effect on the policies of the NCAA...
...mineral-and-vegetable-like structures, commissioned by fantasy-loving Spanish aristocrats, began to sprout in & around Barcelona. Whether his assignment was a mansion, or apartment house, or a hunting lodge, Gaudi designed it with the same back-to-nature abandon, never passed up an opportunity to ripple or bulge a surface, scallop an edge or stick on a few mushrooming towers. To make sure that his weirdly shaped buildings were appropriately furnished, Gaudi would nev er accept a job unless he was allowed to design everything from beds and tables to lamps and plumbing fixtures...
...night, Jordan attacked the recent recommendations of the special committee of college presidents in as address to the American Football Coaches Association of which he is retiring president. The speech, which was carried over A.B.C., hit specifically at the committee's stand on de-emphasis and its proposal to abandon athletic Scholarships, spring practice, and bowl games...
Canada last week set the Canadian dollar completely free. By cabinet decision, all foreign-exchange controls were abolished and Canada became the first controlled-currency country to abandon money restrictions imposed during and after World...
Show of Hands. This year, frosts, long dry spells and labor shortages had caused farmers to abandon acreage, and that threw the estimate off. Many a farmer had also exaggerated the size of his planting, feeling that if acreage controls were put on again, 1951 might be used as a base year. In Chicago last week, at the annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation, cotton farmers complained bitterly. But Georgia Farm Bureau President Harry Wingate quieted them down. He asked how many farmers had sent in the area estimates from, which the Crop Reporting Board got its total...