Word: consign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...encourage a classical background. The average concentrator is left to his own devices while the superior student who can better choose his own needs is handicapped. It is hoped that sometime in the not-too-distant future the English Department will either find a better method of encouragement or consign classical requirements to the ash-can where they belong...
...illustrates psychological processes in the souls of five lives at ebb tide in the Southern Pacific. At its climax the two lowest by dying heroically save themselves from being dragged out to the sea, point the way for two others, hero and heroine, to make peace within themselves, and consign the ultimate villain to eternal low tide amid the highest physical comfort allotted to any of the quintet...
...thanks to TIME for placing provocative Current Affairs Test on last six pages. It makes it so easy to rip out and consign to the nearest wastebasket without disturbing balance of magazine...
...neighboring universities to nominate an investigating committee. The committee visits the complainant's campus, hears both sides firsthand. Sometimes it finds that a sluggard or incompetent has got his just deserts. Sometimes it is able to "work a reconciliation. Only in flagrant cases of injustice does it consign the offending university to public infamy in a stinging report...
...criticism. The unnecessarily violent controversy has already made inroads upon the morale of Norfolk, and thrown a specialized and non-political institution into the quagmire of partisan dispute. That a technical prison investigation should be conducted by an auditor is inappropriate enough; but that the newspapers and public should consign it to the limbo of ward politics is grave injustice to a public servant whose honesty, ability, and usefulness to the state have never before been questioned...