Word: foregoing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several cracks at the policy of the Conservative Government as announced from the throne. Said he anent the "fair and honest" Anglo-Italian debt settlement: "[As Premier]! was perfectly prepared to cancel inter-Allied debts and the debt of Germany to us, provided the United States was prepared to forego what was owing to her. ... If we had just stood pat, that would have gone through. . . . But it is no use talking about that now. The American debt has been funded. . . . Remember, moreover, that it costs this country a shilling in the pound in income tax to pay the interest...
...wish to become a bore, but I cannot forego the satisfaction of congratulating you on the exceptional article in last week's edition on Senator Wadsworth. That article gave me a mental picture of the Senator from New York that I could not have secured without reading at least half a dozen books, and it was done so pleasantly and so briefly. It certainly was as fine a piece of writing as I have read in a long time...
Surely the undergraduate here must appreciate the response of the man from Hanover, for newspaper fame and the accompanying fortune are not so easy to forego in reality as in the theorized discussions of the ethics laboratory. Yet when one man has moral strength enough to play a game for what the game itself offers and no more, then college athletics by his single example maintain a higher, a better place in the development of youth; when another is weak, then he sets a feeble example to the next generation of football players and gives the outside world another chance...
...find a coach who is better than any graduate, we would take him. The report says that the Committee would 'like' to restrict all coaches to graduates, but should the Committee be able to find a non-graduate who was eminently suited to the job, it would have to forego its liking and secure the better...
Each year Professor Copeland gives a number of public readings, though last year illness forced him to forego several. He has not announced what he will read tonight. Besides reading, Professor Copeland will speak briefly on the history of the Advocate...