Word: abandonment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, as if knowing his words were vain, he seemed to give up argument and to abandon himself to an emotional plea for his pet bill. He spoke of his undeveloped, unappreciated, unknown country...
Senator Pat Harrison (Democrat) leaped to his feet, last week, and electrified his Senatorial peers. Not since the green legal shingle of young lawyer Pat swung in the breeze at Leakesville, Miss., has he spoken with more vigorous abandon. He flayed the Administration for what he called its "dark lantern diplomacy." He referred slightingly to President Coolidge as "Careful Cal." He openly derided Secretary of State Kellogg as "Nervous Nellie." All this he did because the press of the world became excited about an alleged report on the European situation in general, said to have been made by a gentleman...
...Abandon hope, all ye rejected here"?this legend might well be inscribed over the doorway of the old Senate Chamber in the Capitol, the Chamber in which the Supreme Court now sits. Last week Mr. Charles R. Forbes, onetime Director of the Veterans' Bureau, and Mr. John W. Thompson, St. Louis building contractor, were rejected there...
...continued: "In building materials and construction, we should have to abandon the board measure and substitute square decimeters, centares or ares. Doors which are familiar to all builders as 2 ft. 8 in. by 6 ft. 8 in. become 762 by 2,032 millimeters. An ordinary brick 51 by 101 millimeters. The sizes of sash also are converted into strange units. All architect's drawings will be in new units, involving a most perplexing conversion of current building material units or made upon a system that will involve changes in all woodworking machinery to meet metric units...
...brains for a "formula"?a way around these obstacles which would salve everyone's prestige. The stand which Brazil eventually took was, as a matter of fact, announced by her (and by Spain as well) when the delegates first assembled. Both Spain and Brazil were prevailed upon to abandon their blockade for several days (TIME, March 22), but at that time the Germans and French were unable to agree. Early last week Premier Briand and Dr. Stresemann blazoned it abroad that they were agreed upon one* of the many tentative "formulas" which had been concocted. For an instant...