Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Therefore, while I deprecate fully the exclusive uses of the courses made in American colleges, I also think it would be unfortunate to abandon for any type of man the value that courses can contribute towards college education. --President Lowell in the Yale News...
...matter bluntly, Mr. MacDonald and Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden have been driven by overpowering political forces?perhaps by British public opinion itself?almost to abandon their first love: Socialism...
...water needed for oysters was a little too salty, and hence inviting to starfish. No enemy so annoys the oyster as the starfish which, unintelligent in many matters, is smart enough to clutch the bivalve in a deathly grip and tug until Ostrea Virginica in a moment of exhausted abandon opens his shell and allows himself to glide into the starfish's protuberant stomach. Oystermen have learned to clear the water of starfish by using a long mop, but other foes lurk beneath the surface. There are snailfish molluscs known as drills, borers, whelks and conches that congregate upon...
...school should not avoid its obligation to inculeate some citizenship and some science. I do not frankly see why the school should be forced to abandon the growing idea of catering to some one or two of a boy's enthustasms (magazine-writing, music, drawing, nature study in various forms, manual training or commercial geography, in its ramifications) in order to satisfy the rules of our colleges and universities that a modern language must be mastered before the candidate is eligible for a degree. The Progressive idea, in its essential features, has come to stay: and the secondary school must...
...lack of judgment in the use of big type which is chiefly responsible for the protest against it. But let me make it clear that I do not propose to abandon necessary, typographical display in emphasizing the importance of news articles...