Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...graceful custom, and much can be said in favor of it. But when it can no longer be observed without stultification and absolute falsehood, it is high time to abandon it. - [Boston Herald...
...says, "must be decided within the next few decades. Two ideas are on trial, and one must stand and the other fall. Either Harvard must check her career of revolutionary innovation and even withdraw from some of the positions already taken, or else Yale must abandon her cautious conservatism and stand abreast of her venturesome rival. Meanwhile, there is no denying the fact that the bulk of undergraduate opinion at Yale favors Harvard on this question." The drift of such a sentiment, we believe, shows very clearly the inevitable tendencies of the day, and its significance is by no means...
Secretary of the Treasury Folger is ill, so ill that yesterday he was obliged to abandon his attempt to attend to business...
Yale and Harvard have the right, of course, to found an inter-collegiate custom, and after a short time abandon it to better and stronger oarsmen, but they have no right, in view of this fact, to claim to be the representative rowing colleges while at the same time confining their races to meetings with each other. - [Philadelphia Times...
...Yale played throughout with that vigor and abandon which have always marked her play, and which her uniform success has proved to be necessary qualities in the play of a winning team," cries the Record. "Vigor and abandon" are very good, are excellent, and are terms (especially the latter) that may mean a great deal...