Word: foregoing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next Saturday the Harvard players are doomed to being outdressed by the visiting band, wearing full military regalia, and boasting a seven foot drum. Harvard is content to forego the brass buttons and gold braid now that its representatives have added the polish of courtesy to the tunes that they have always rendered faithfully...
Said H. R. H.: "With me comes the prime minister of the old country. Mr. Baldwin has, of course, already been here in the days before he assumed his high office, so I have had to forego the temptation of treating him, on the way over, as a tenderfoot...
...village with my good family and a dog, where I could have my friends about me, and have a chance for godly living, to preach to them on God's day, bury their dead, baptize their children and comfort their sorrows. But that may not be. I must forego my plans for a rest and enter God's battle immediately...
Moreover, the cultivated man can ill afford to forego the lifetime pleasure of seeing nature with his eyes open. Ideally geology should be the avocation of every college graduate. During his daily walks, from railway train, steamer, or motorcar, he can see the earth evolving; he can see her majestic rhythms, her wonderful adaptations to life, her profound control over human history. Such permanent enrichment of life comes to the man who elects a full course in general geology. Thousands of Harvard graduates can testify to the truth of this statement. It must be remembered, too, that geology...
...favorite occupations, however, are fishing and hunting in both of which he is adapt. Although Mikkola likes America immensely, in this respect he maintains that it is vastly inferior to Finland. But he is willing to forego the pleasures of fishing and hunting for the other advantages which this country offers and intends to remain here in the future...