Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is not mere theorizing. I feel sure that the system has actually done an injustice to one of my classmates (there may be more) in as much as it is to deny him an degree and is to give a degree to certain men in the "snap" departments who not only have been notorious loafers during their college careers but also have failed to make themselves worthy of the ranks of the educated...
...bottles President Lowell was not even at hand to be photographed turning over the first sod with a silver spade. It was a very business-like affair. A steam shoved appeared on the scene planted itself in a point of vantage and began to soop. The deed was done...
When Trigo crossed the finish line there was a profound silence. Nobody could believe that the outsider had "done the trick." Trigo's jockey was only an apprentice, one Joe Marshall...
...propellor, no buoyance for wings. Most scientists with lunar leanings have therefore pondered shooting themselves moonwards in rockets. Herr Oberth, bearing in mind the desirability of returning and landing on the earth, cogitated combining plane and rocket, using the latter for propulsion of the former as has been done experimentally at the Opel works in Germany. The core of his cogitations concerned the materials to be fused to attain speed in and out of Earth's atmosphere. He described two kinds of fuses-one using hydrogen, the other of alcohol-which he calculated would drive a plane...
Understanding of Russian industry is dependent upon realization that Russian industry is thoroughly nationalized. The Supreme Economic Council appoints for each branch of industry a Commissariat, who receives a subsidy for the promotion of the business over which he rules. Both buying and selling is done not by individuals but by cooperatives. Co-operatives in Russia do not mean organizations of all members of the same trade. They are organizations of all trades in the same community. Thus a producer's cooperative in a given community would include steel men, grain men, textile men; would handle all the production...