Word: forfeit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...live in an atmosphere of compromise and adaptation. As a practical effect, each member would bargain and haggle with the others as to the meaning of the Act. This would sacrifice a consistent and systematic interpretation of principles without the gain of any corresponding advantage, and would tend to forfeit the support which the courts so far have extended to the Board. Earl G. Latham...
...know that, in his early life, he was superbly egotistic. From his great teacher, Haydn, he insisted that he learned nothing. He made enemies because of his overbearing manner as fast as he made friends with his music; he disdained to hear Mozart's operas "lest I forfeit some of my originality." "I want none of your moral (precepts)," he once wrote, "for Power is the morality of men who loom above the others, and it is also mine." "I look upon them (mankind) only as instruments upon which I play when I feel so disposed...
Heir Martin proved a good advertising salesman but very small shakes as a publisher. In five years he has lost-one by sale, one by merger, one by forfeit- three of the papers into which millions of Curtis magazine profits were poured. Last week it appeared that Publisher Martin might soon lose his last one, the evening Public Ledger...
...rest of the world--for this affair is inherently international--it is obvious that no embassy attache's life is worth the staggering sum demanded. It is equally indisputable that the Jewish Germans, already bled by the Hitler regime, are in no position to pay the forfeit required, Thus, a world whose patience Hitler has frayed twice in the past year should express in terms as strong as those used in the Austrian and Czech crises its disapproval of such barbarianism. To the pleas of France and England, Hitler has already shown himself impervious. But a scowling rebuke from...
...Prague had gone two British Labor Party henchmen, Messrs. Gillies and David Grenfell, especially to succor Social-Democratic Sudetens. "These people must be saved if we have to rouse the whole world" said Gillies and Grenfell in a joint statement. "The Czechs will now forfeit within a few days the claim to the worldwide sympathy they have deservedly won if they drive back to torture and death at the hands of the Nazis these front-line Soldiers of Democracy...