Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been adequately tested by the only group competent to pass on the question of its efficacy -has been found. The tragedy that follows the announcements of various alleged cures is little known except to the medical profession; sufferers in stages in which they could be helped by medical science, abandon treatment and follow the wills-of-the-wisp until the chances for recovery are forever gone; others bankrupt themselves or their families in order to try the new panaceas. The second fact in the Seydel matter is: There was no justification for a scientific body devoted to chemistry to permit...
...Earth and the other planets. At Blackpool, Sir James said that a colleague had recently pointed out to him that this theory failed to account for the fast rotation speeds of the big outer planets, which have short days of about ten hours. The astronomer indicated his readiness to abandon the theory in favor of a better...
Various leverages are applied against Basil with more or less telling effects. He is induced to abandon his charges by the lure of admission into an even more exclusive club than that to which he belongs, until the shimmering promise perforce collapses. Cutting remarks are made on all sides concerning his mercenary motives and his racial vindictiveness. This bitter resolve, however, carries him through to the point where another loyalty steps in, that of a lawyer for the law, and condemns the thief. For disputable reasons the Jew then abandons the fight, but it is too late to save...
Again the independence of the Harvard man was voiced when Cahners concluded: "If a skilled athlete decides to abandon inter-collegiate competition and to devote more time to his studies, he is confronted by pleading fellow students and friends, coaches, and in some instances, officers of the University, who endeavor to rouse his conscience and sense of 'duty' to Alma Mater. Few young men can resist this pressure, especially in view of the social stigma attached to the 'quitter...
...Ladies' Garment Workers' Union resigned as eleventh vice president of the American Federation of Labor. Industrial Unionist Dubinsky's reason: The craft-unionist A. F. of L. Executive Council had exceeded its authority last month in ordering the ten industrial unions composing C. I. O. to abandon their organization within 30 days or be suspended from the Federation...