Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expression than the usual tear-jerker about the down-and-outer who stresses the point that his dejected head once was encased in an Uncle Sam tin hat and won't somebody please give him a bit of coin. The chorus is quite handsome and gyrates with sufficient abandon. The costumes and sets are striking. It's all good fun, and not too clean...
...always played a third game if the two scheduled diamond encounters left the Crimson and Blue in a tie for their traditional championship, but due largely to the financial loss incurred by holding the game after the closing of College, the H.A.A., and the Yale Athletic Association agreed to abandon the playoff. Consequently all prospects of a third game were scratched off the books for the 1934 season...
Quick to adopt each new improvement in fire-fighting apparatus, the successors of Truckson La France branched into chemical fire wagons, doubled their business when fire trucks were motorized. They opened a plant in New Jersey to manufacture regular commercial trucks, had to abandon it when Mack Truck and others retaliated by invading the fire apparatus field. Just before Depression American-La France bought out Foamite-Childs Corp. of Utica, makers of "Foamite," a patented powder which mixes with water to produce a fire-fighting gas said to be superior to the old sulphuric acid, soda and water...
...life's great dramas is scheduled to take place this morning when the Harvard Advocate and Yale's Harkness Hoot abandon the sheepskin for the pigskin in a game of touch football on the Old Campus Field...
...policy has been to take only one year leases on stores. In Cleveland 93% of its leases were reported to be of that kind. To stamp out a virus which might quickly spread from Atlantic to Pacific, a company with 15,427 stores could well afford to abandon an infected...