Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found, however, that these or other measures fail to remedy the present linguistic deficiencies of the average Harvard student, the CRIMSON urges that Harvard frankly abandon the existing pretense that all her graduates are versed in any language other than English...
...That Mr. Loree would abandon his fifth trunk system plan. (TIME, April...
...leave the choice of candidates to our electorate . . . really means to abandon choice to a few intriguers...
...listless leader, Mr. Lyles his henchman. There are also more strenuous Bedlamites from Harlem who break into loud melodious ululations; there is a skilful and frantically energetic black and blues orchestra and marty lively tappers and prancers of whom one, name unspecified, brandishes her mahogany limbs with incredibly vicious abandon...
Perhaps it is still too early to pass judgement upon a scheme which has not yet been fully worked out. In any case it will be impossible to abandon the new plan until the engagements undertaken under it have been discharged. Meanwhile, however, the Harvard athletic authorities might do well to pause before proceding on a course which at best seems fraught with dangers...