Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Railroad Rates?"The law requires that rates should be just and reasonable. . . . Unless the Government adheres to the rule of making a rate that will yield a fair return, it must abandon rate-making altogether...
Amelita Galli-Curci continues to issue aphorisms in protesting her determination (TIME, Nov. 26) to abandon the Chicago Civic Opera. Her last : "An artist cannot give of her best if there are turmoil, bickering, quarreling. Even a street sweeper is shown consideration if he sweeps well. I have been shown none...
...religious services. In order to save these athletes a mass meeting of the undergraduate body was held, at which it was voted to rescind the vote of resistance taken on Monday. While the leaders of the movement do not admit, that their cause is lost, they have decided to abandon their resistance until the entire student body can support the movement...
...wait the good pleasure of any one. . . . Our security is above all assured by consolidation of the territories which we occupy. As long as Germany does not show herself pacific, we will remain on our guard. As long as the Treaty has not been entirely fulfilled, we will not abandon the left bank of the Rhine. . . . We would have liked to have had the conference of Ambassadors demand at once either extradition of the Crown Prince as one of the War guilty, or his banishment. The reëstablishment of the Hohenzollerns on the throne would be a menace...
Once push the hesitating male upon the platform, and he will probably admit the advantages in this debating. Nothing could more surely force him to abandon his unadorned logic for a freer, more appealing style. His opponents will use logic, but of an entirely different kind adapted to winning an audience. He will have to pay regard to the antagonism which his usual trip-hammer, hard hitting methods will surely raise in minds which are persuaded not coerced. Such training is the next logical step in humanizing college debating...