Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish to abandon my reserve by mixing in questions of politics, to take sides, or to set one Nation or party against the other'" (as if he could...
Requested by the authorities of the First Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, not to abandon them utterly but to continue to preach there when he could (TIME, Nov. 3), Dr. Fosdick replied by letter...
President Eliot once began a research to find out why families which had for generations sent their sons to Harvard, gradually ceased to be represented in the University. The impossibility of finding records of the maternal sides forced him to abandon the attempt, but he said that he had secured irrefutable proof that the Anglo Saxon stock in America is dying...
...will come when inquiring spirits may question the economical and political bases of the system which nourished them. Then the proletarian whose passionate support made the Bolsheviki masters of Russia, and whose ranks supply the brain and brawn of the movement, may like Romulus and Remus, abandon the wolf who sucked them...
...evolved into stable institutions with trustees and bursars, with endowments of tradition and funds, with buildings upon which ivy has grown and around which affection has gathered, with 'counts' for admission and semester hours for graduation. All this progress (this progress from Abelard to ivy) Dr. Meiklejohn proposes to abandon...