Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Abandon Quincy Street...
...rare men whom study has not ossified. The teaching profession today needs men, not walking dictionaries. True scholars, in addition to possessing profound knowledge, are eminently human and their knowledge is human. This human quality, moreover, can never be measured in terms of a Ph.D. And until American colleges abandon their foolish worship of a Ph.D. and substitute for it a combined standard of knowledge and personality, much of what we complacently term "education" will continue to be hollow inane, and futile...
...cathedral aisles. Why, friends, I am 77 years old and I haven't had such a thrill (literary thrill) since, at the age of ten, I read about "an arm clothed in samite?mystic, wonderful!" Joking aside, please do not let carping critics persuade you to change or abandon your charming diction. Why not clothe commonplace details with beautiful language? Keep up the good work, and if there are any more organ tones which darkly stride, strode, stridden or have strode down cathedral aisles, be sure and tell us about...
...shall make every effort for conciliation within my Cabinet. However, if certain Ministers wish to abandon me I will not raise a finger. . . . (But I shall not abandon those Ministers who remain faithful to me and to France! I shall not resign...
...face of it, the letter seemed only another of Carol's innumerable declarations that he has long wanted to abandon royal state and live as a commoner with Zyzis. In 1919 he wrote a similar epistle, and he is thought to have written many before and since. What startled the world was that this time King Ferdinand, instead of hushing up the offer of abdication, rushed it through the Crown Council and ordered the Roumanian Parliament to convene for the purpose of declaring Carol's baby son, Michel, the Crown Prince...