Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since no more than half a dozen parking-problem ballots printed recently in the CRIMSON were returned to the Student Council's Committee on Parking, the Council has decided to abandon the idea of appealing to the University for conversion of vacant lots into parking space...
...United States' policy appeasement and wrist-slapping, brings up shades of Chamberlain at a time when we should abandon our present attitude for a definite warning to Japan backed up by the guns of our Pacific fleet. Our two-faced stand in the Far East will not help us in the least. From Tokyo yesterday came assurances that if we would like to make a few more concessions, a conflict with Japan could easily be avoided. These "concessions" would amount practically to a desertion of Great Britain. But we know that Japan will continue to act as she sees...
...German Military Attaché Franz von Papen was expelled from the U.S. for plotting an invasion of Canada, suborning disloyal Germans and Irishmen, blowing up ships, docks, munitions factories, and workingmen with an inept abandon that even a foreign government's official spy is not permitted to indulge. Ever since then, Americans have followed Papen's activities with a somewhat surreptitious personal interest-like that taken in a classmate who was expelled from school...
Several bids have been received which are too low to be considered seriously, since the University feels that if it must abandon tradition, it should do it profitably. According to Bingham, Harvard was offered $100,000 three years ago for the broadcasting rights and refused, and more recently was offered $37,500 with the same result...
While we believe that war and the inevitable loss of freedom that goes with war will surely become necessary, we do not abandon our fight for a better, more truly democratic country to emerge when the struggle is finally over. The adoption of a dictatorship in this country, like those of Churchill in England and Chiang Kai-shek in China, will, we are convinced, be purely for the means of winning the war. That is the first objective. Until the war is won we can put into effect neither social aims nor peace programs...