Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gurney has been studying abroad for an operatic career, when he decided to abandon it and devote himself to business. As a result he came to the Graduate School and is taking part in the Glee Club's concerts. He sings second bass, Beaman singing baritone and Atwater being first tenor...
...would like to see China blessed with so pure a judiciary that the U. S. might abandon its extraterritoriality right without jeopardizing its nationals...
...follow, circling the buoy cautiously. Chunks of "proud" beef, on six-inch hooks, chain leaders and lines like halyards, wait for them on the bottom-usually wait for hours. . . . In the garden of a Nassau hotel there used to be the jaws of a hammerhead shark, with a placard: "Abandon hope all ye who enter here." A more appropriate exhibit would have been the jaws of a large barracuda (sphyraena barracuda), sharp-fanged "tiger fish" of West Indian waters. Long, silvery, black-barred, barracudas haunt the shallows boldly by day, are far more ferocious and aggressive than sand sharks...
Here the cries of the caged creatures forced the jovial jester to abandon speech for action. Freed eventually from his trusteeship by the lethal nature of his ward's actions, he continued by explaining that for years he had worked with live animals and that he loved them. "Even Freddle, and I are old friends," he concluded...
...particularly emphasized the importance of building mathematically complete theories of atomic structure and of determinating the resulting frequencies. So far as he knew, this had not been done for a single case hitherto. It seems to be wise not to abandon the attempt to explain laws in this way on the basis of an underlying continum of space and time, despite the fact that the quantum theory has been tending in the opposite direction...