Word: disregards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Your announcement is a surrender to these grain people . . . a disclaimer of any intention of a desire to be helpful to cooperative associations and a determination to disregard both the spirit and intent of the law. . . . If the policy of the board is to be determined in secret meetings with the speculative interests, the board is functioning in the interest of the grain people and in opposition to the farmers...
Sirs: . . . The crux of West Point's stand lies in ... that with its smaller enrolment it cannot cope with Annapolis unless it can disregard the three-year rule...
...disillusioned Tolstoyan of "Flesta" in straining the sense of probability. After such a series of primitives, sometimes merry but always extravagant, we may well return to life as we know it or at latest to the realm of a disciplined and central imagination. Even should it choose to disregard the perplexity of a bewildered public, the Dramatic Club would seem to owe to its members the opportunity to show that they are not really morons, even though they have acted the part for the last several productions. Situated with both cast and academic audience able and ready to grasp subtlety...
Vienna's smoky Westbahnhof was crowded last week with worried tourists struggling for tickets and berths to Paris, Berlin, Prague, Milan?almost anywhere away from Austria. Normally U. S. tourists keep to their spartan schedule of cathedrals, art galleries, shops, with complete disregard of local politics. But since three bloody riots have been staged in the past fortnight by Austria's two pugnacious, irregular armies?the socialist Schutzbund and the reactionary Heim-wehr (TIME, Aug. 19)?and moreover since a third riot resulted in 48 woundings and three deaths, even the most earnest gallery-gazers felt it wise...
...Members of the Labor Party show a terrible disregard of the Sabbath," boomed Commissioner Archibald MacNeillage. "They delight in trampling it under foot. Remember that the American Ambassador, Mr. C. G. Dawes, was first received by our Labor Prime Minister on the Sabbath-day! So far as the world knows, the great interest of world peace has not been advanced one iota by that Sabbath-day meeting...