Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take the test, but these men must be excused at 12 Little Hall before the date of the examination. Perkins, however, urged all V-1 pre-meds who find it possible to take the examination, since it will act as a safeguard for officer training if they must abandon a medical career...
...persuade nations tending to run trade deficits to reduce prices and costs, thus stimulating their exports; 2) to try to persuade nations running big export surpluses to raise prices by internal fiscal policy and thus to export less and import more; 3) to persuade nations to abandon restrictive tariffs and other trade barriers...
This election was the second held since the Harvard Chapter found it necessary to abandon the peace-time system of selection. For the duration there will no longer be a Junior Eight or Senior Sixteen. All men will be selected upon the basis of course work completed...
Early last December he was sent to North Africa. There he learned, last week, that he had been made a lieutenant general. Spaatz has few relaxations: squash, fishing, poker, which he plays with a sometimes wild abandon, betting, according to his wife, "on anything." But at Souk-el-Spaatz, he plays less & less. His habitual tension has increased. Recently he wrote to Mrs. Spaatz: "I'm looking forward to the day when we can reoccupy our shack . . . own a boat on the Potomac and float up & down on the tide." The "shack" is the comfortable, 133-year-old home...
...culture, Jones is also a critic of note, literary editor of the Transcript during the last two years of its life and frequent contributor to the Saturday Review of Literature. He is now finishing the job of editing the letters of William Makepeace Thackcray, which Gordon was forced to abandon for the Navy last December. Professor Jones hopes to have the edited letters ready by the end of the year, believing they will reval a new Thackeray--the Dr. Johnson of the 19th Century...