Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were rising too fast. Now commodity prices are nearing the 1926 level. Four years ago President Roosevelt was said to favor maintaining the 1924-25 level by varying the gold content of the dollar. So the New Deal is now at the crossroads where it may soon, have to abandon its determination to hold commodity prices down, or to give up all its other inflationary policies...
...Manhattan. Gadabout Manville explained he had paid his wife $200,000 to go off quietly to Reno and abandon her plans to nick him for $1,000,000. Burbled he: "I like to do things in a businesslike...
...Edinburgh and Harvard, Neilson was for many years in the English department of Harvard's faculty, leaving that position to become president of Smith College. "Heretofore, you have been devoting yourself to the great art of 'getting by' "he said. Now it is time for the student to abandon one way of thinking as he enters college and taking another. He declared that one must attempt to master a subject rather than just think of getting safely through tomorrow's recitation...
...money that came from Oelber on lessons with famed Professional Robert Kleinschroth. Two years later, after he had progressed to the point of beating Tilden-trained Wilbur Coen Jr., he got his father's permission to marry his childhood friend, dark, vivacious Baroness Lisa von Dobeneck, and to abandon his studies in favor of a career in tennis...
...four destroyers, sped out of San Diego at forced draft, stopped in Hawaii to refuel, arrived in the search area early this week. If the Lexington's great fleet of planes could not find the lost flyers. Rear Admiral Orin G. Murfin, coordinator of the search, planned to abandon it. Meanwhile the chance of finding the flyers alive, according to the consensus of searchers, was already down to one in a million...