Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...class and may soon be popular with Britain's masses, last week had to be careful as First Lord. It would not do, while Mr. Eden was diplomatically capitulating to II Duce, for the British Admiralty to confirm rumors flying in the Press that Britain is "about to abandon Malta as a naval base...
...House of Commons same day there were cries of ''Hear! Hear!'1 for a judicious announcement by Sir Samuel Hoare that Britain will not abandon Malta. In other words, the wholly inadequate Malta defenses will be maintained as they are, for moral effect. Virtual abandonment of Malta as a main Empire naval base took place months ago when the major units of the British Mediterranean Fleet scuttled off to Alexandria (TIME, Sept...
...than it was doing for Paris department-store owners whose premises were in the third week of a "stay-in-strike." Over to the American Hospital and down into its basement hurried Minister of Interior Roger Salen-gro to "personally intervene." By nightfall he had got the strikers to abandon their more fantastic demands, persuaded the American Hospital to accept the rest, including higher pay, shorter hours...
...given $26,000,000 to install it at Harvard and his alma mater Yale, had decided to make the House Plan's early home a laboratory for his second educational enthusiasm, the Conference Plan. Next year Lawrenceville, armed with a blank check signed Edward S. Harkness, will abandon classroom instruction, set an enlarged faculty to conversing helpfully with its students across polished conference tables...
Fortnight ago in the Old Absinthe House in New Orleans two oldtime jazzists, one with a trumpet, the other with a clarinet, stepped into the spotlight, played with such authentic abandon, such valid virtuosity that the customers sat owl-eyed, raised a din with their applause when the pair had finished. Well they might. The trumpeter was Nick La Rocca. The clarinetist was Larry Shields. As members of the Original Dixieland Jazz...