Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote a poem beginning, "Let us abandon then our garden and go home." She also picketed, was jailed...
...American delegation came . . . ready to negotiate and modify our plan within reason, but it is better to abandon the attempt to limit armaments rather than try to put over a camouflage scheme which means either immense additional construction or relegation [of the U. S. Navy] to second place...
...cleverer-Mr. Lewis-has far surpassed in ability and notoriety his more intellectual and radical elder. Yet when Sinclair Lewis was but a redheaded young yahoo learning at Upton Sinclair's colony, Helicon Hall (Englewood, N. J.), the rudiments of a Socialism which he was later to abandon for a creed 100% egocentric, Upton Sinclair was already a celebrity by inversion, a rebel whose voice of loud and monotonous dissent had long been heard in the land...
...heavy rains, is not so great as its predecessor, but passes through a country whose shattered levees offer relatively little resistance. Crops, hastily planted in still muddy ground, have been inundated again, and from 15,000 to 20,000 persons in Arkansas alone were once more forced to abandon their homes before the new onrush...
...presence at Tientsin gave confidence to U. S. citizens in Peking. They still feared, to be sure, that the Peking War Lord, Chang Tso-lin, might withdraw before the Southern armies,, retire to his war base at Mukden, and abandon Peking to its conquerors; but with General Butler at hand, together with British, Japanese and French marine detachments, the safety of Occidentals in Peking seemed secure...