Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hotly fought contest which lasted one and one-half hours the Sophomore football managers defeated the Freshman managers 64 to 0 at the Varsity practice field yesterday. Dashing up and down the field with gay abandon, Sophomore stars scored touchdown after touchdown for both teams; the referee, however, counted only the touchdowns scored by the winning team...
...acid and thus to remedy certain states of gout, arthritis, rheumatism, sciatica and neuralgia, doctors recently adopted a synthetic drug called cinchophen, made from quinine and carbolic acid. Soon cinchophen users complained of jaundice. Many died, and, upon autopsy, revealed extensive degeneration of the liver. Doctors nevertheless hesitated to abandon this highly useful drug...
Other nations were treated last week to a British general election campaign waged on the gravest issues of foreign policy with complete abandon and free speech...
...Beverly Hills Citizen, a small weekly devoted chiefly to social news. Publisher Rogers plans an immediate subscription drive, thinks he can double the paper's circulation (3,000) in a year, may eventually make it a daily. He plans to write no column, was persuaded to abandon editorial innovations. Friends give him six months' active charge, predict he will thereafter return to polo...
...love with the innocent daughter of a brothel-keeper, sold his retinue of girls into white slavery in Argentina, became respectable. Before their marriage he told his conventionally-minded betrothed of his crime, because he wanted her to call him Mottke, was denounced to the commissar. With extravagant abandon, Mary diverted the commissar until she could warn Mottke, who would not believe her. The police found him with his sweetheart insisting that she swear she had not betrayed...