Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sounded will go the sympathy of the College. Nevertheless these men should remember, first of all, that they form only four per cent of the student body and that they cost $125 per participant on a yearly basis. They should remember, secondly, that even if they are forced to abandon their sports, two courses remain open to them; the other sports or House athletics. If House athletics assume a more important position as appears probable, the Houses may at last achieve some individuality rather than social. In other words, opportunity for athletics has not been lessened. Two canals have been...
...restrict the issuance of passports and the making of loans to belligerent nations are of particular significance at this time, since the policy of Great Britain at the forthcoming Stresa Conference depends largely upon the attitude of the United States. The Nye-Clark resolutions, which express a willingness to abandon our traditional insistence on the "freedom of the seas" in a technically legal sense, would--if adopted--encourage the English in the belief that the American navy would not oppose British blockade of an aggressor nation. Thus the way for acceptance by England of greater responsibility for the maintenance...
...last week Worth and Wall Streets echoed with talk about the "news" that had caused the break: a report from an unknown source that the Government had decided to abandon its policy of lending farmers 12? per lb. on their cotton. As a price stabilizer that policy had been effective. But who could tell how far cotton might fall if the loans were stopped...
...Japan must abandon her attitude of dominance in the Far East!" cried Hongkong Hu. "She must drop all pretensions to sponsorship of an 'Asiatic Monroe Doctrine.' This ambitious doctrine-tantamount to Japanese assumption of superiority in the Far East-must be dropped if fruitful collaboration between China and Japan is to be realized...
...writes, "our world does not possess the requisite courage and cohesion, then we had better abandon our dream of a warless future, and revert to the limited objective of 'peace in our time.' With such an end in view, we may still turn for counsel to the pre-War system. At its worst, it was less dangerous than a paper facade, which no nation trusts or fears. At present, it seems, nations which should trust are dominated by fear, and those which fear are emboldened. The peoples of the world seem at times to resemble a crowd in a small...