Word: forego
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...student body, too, is to be congratulated. A student body which is so firmly convinced of its collective stand on any question, that it will forego the privilege of heckling an opposition speaker with embarrassing questions is definitely approaching the problems of life with an admirably open collective mind. A refreshing display of old-fashioned Americanism indeed...
...whom he had come to negotiate. They got on famously-so well, indeed, that the British Cabinet voluntarily sacrificed their sacrosanct week end, worked Saturday and Sunday to oblige Premier Flandin and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval. Normally in London any statesman rash enough to suggest that the Government forego their week end is met either with a freezing stare or the suave, stock British excuse: "Impossible, I am afraid. In Paris, yes. But in London even a rumor that the Cabinet may find it necessary to break their week end upsets the City...
...there is a limit to what they have to offer. For the student who is interested in his field it is a source of chagrin that at present the work he does for his tutor should pass unnoticed, and it is unfair that the impecunious should be forced to forego much of this interesting work for the sake of marks which may mean little. There is everything to be said for a plan which will make it possible for those students in need of scholarships to be judged on the basis of their zeal as well as their ability...
...former colonies and the Anschluss with Austria. If armament equality were conceded her, and the Nazis rose to power in Austria without so much outside aid as to precipitate a general European war, and the Saar reverted to her in 1935 as it is certain to do, Germany might forego her other demands and disappear as a cause of European nervousness for some years...
...campaign to persuade visiting teams to waive the customary minimum gate guarantees. Although no revised schedules under the new budget will be announced by the H.A.A. for another week, it is understood that telegrams have been pouring in from sports managers of scheduled colleges expressing their willingness to forego guarantees in order to avoid cancellation of their Harvard engagements...