Word: forego
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal economists have scratched their heads over the Rust picker, pondered the plight of the great mass of black humanity in the South which makes a living picking cotton. They were encouraged to hear that, far from being rapacious moneygetters, the Brothers Rust, professed Socialists, were willing to forego profits rather than deliver a body blow to Southern labor. Holding 51% of the stock in their manufacturing company at Memphis, the Rusts offered marketing control of the picker to the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. The Union had too slim a purse to accept. The Brothers left the offer open...
...there any physicist who believes that we shall never get any inside view [of the behavior of single electrons]? To believe this is logically possible without contradiction; but it is so very contrary to my scientific instinct that I cannot forego the search for a more complete conception...
Although he has also assisted with Freshman and House football, Dean Chauncey will forego all athletic coaching in order to have more time free for interviewing candidates throughout the country who are applying for the new National Scholarship established under the Three Hundredth Anniversary Fund...
...very able freshman, whom I have known from childhood, has been laboring diligently on theme writing. There are times when he would forego a week's spending money to be rid of his weekly task of writing an English A theme. The youth has been doing exceedingly well in his other courses, but his marks on English A themes have not matched his other course grades. Partly to encourage him and partly to save him the long night hours, which 1, as a freshman theme writer spent grudgingly and fruitlessly, I have tried to help him. At first our united...
...meet Mr. Selden, accompanied by a pretty wench, who did look at me very pleasingly as if to say sometime je desire basier vous but being with my friend I had to forego the pleasure of doing the trick even there and then and took to talking of Mr. Selden's essays instead; which also are very good...