Word: foregoing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fulfilled its promises and her expectations of four years ago, in every particular. She would hate giving up Atlantic and Harper's monthly magazines, Christian Century, Saturday Review of Literature, or the daily New York Times, but rather than to do without TIME, she believes herself willing to forego almost any two of the others in its favor...
...believes of holders of this degree that they have "wasted three of the best years of their lives and trent their minds into as tortured positions as Buddhistic fakirs bend their bodies." Mr. Marks says of the same person that "if he wants his doctorate in English, he must Forego knowledge in order to become a specialist." One is tempted to ask in what profession today the same is not the case. The inductive method has forced specialization upon the university, that and the knowledge that in generalizations of the Marks, Pingree variety are no approach to truth. The leader...
...teams before they have completed one year of academic work. Exceptions have been West Point and Annapolis. Many a "plebe" has won many a game for these institutions against opponents who denied themselves the assistance of freshmen. Last week, however, West Point announced that, beginning next year, it would forego this genuine advantage, in the interests of "improved athletic development and relations...
...outcry of the malcontents is unanswered. The Democratic leaders are not great enough to forego a small profit for a chance of a greater, to swing a united party behind them into the battle line and lay the fortunes of their party upon the lap of the gods. They have no great benefactor of mankind to teach us new dissatisfactions?the stuff of which our issues are made...
...National Food Products Corporation was obliged to forego its $2,000,000 incorporation program. Of what Federal act was it a potential violator...