Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duty a college has towards its young men. It would be gross negligence on the part of the Director of Athletics and the Committee entrusted by the Harvard Corporation with the regulation and conduct of athletic sports. Should the time come when a majority of Harvard undergraduates wish to abandon training as wisely determined by years of experience and supplant instead a policy of non-training, the time for with drawal of the college from all intercollegiate sports will be at hand. --The H.A.A. News...
...that the world has outgrown the use of gold as a basis of currency and exchange. . . . But we have to remember that it is a commodity the value of which is enshrined in human instincts for over 10,000 years. The time may come when the world can safely abandon its use altogether but it has not yet reached that point. . . . The fears and apprehensions directed to the stability of first one nation and then another have caused . . . large flows of gold to meet exchange demands. . . . Thus a mass of gold dashing hither and yon from one nation to another...
...fork of three roads. The first is the highway of co-operation among nations. . . . The second road is to rely upon our high degree of national self-containment . . . and thus to secure a larger measure of economic isolation. . . . The third road is that we inflate our currency, abandon the gold standard and attempt to enter a world economic war, with the certainty that it leads to complete destruction. . . . Unless the world takes heed it will find it has lost its standards of living and culture, not for a few years of depression but for generations...
...Heave to!" radioed the Java to the mutineers. "Show a white tarpaulin on the awning deck. Surrender and abandon ship...
Last year the Courrier des Etats-Unis, oldest foreign language paper in the U. S. (1828), got into a financial bog, had to abandon its daily edition (TIME, Jan. 16). Last week the daily reappeared. The Courrier had been acquired by William Muriay Hewitt, promoter of foreign language newspaper advertising, from the family of the late Henri Sampers, which had published it since...