Word: forgo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congressman's delight, TVA Employe Charles Hoffman testified that he had to forgo a dinner date with his best girl because she used to be Arthur Morgan's secretary, hence might constitute an unauthorized "contact." Upshot was that Dr. Morgan or any other witness designated by Senator Donahey may henceforth talk to TVA employes without hindrance from TVA bosses...
...fact that Poliakoff served the Times twelve of his 20 journalistic years, and since deserting it last year (preferring to work for a paper "of news, not views") has also scooped the whiskered Times on: 1) Mussolini's fall "peace gesture," 2) Hitler's intention to forgo colonies for a free hand in middle Europe, 3) the February British Cabinet crisis...
...realize, with special clarity, how much in error are those theorists who believe that theory comes inductively from experience. Even the Great Newton could not free himself from this error ("Hypotheses non forgo...
...game as it is conducted by the undergraduates of Oxford and Cambridge. This would be admirable, but is there any probability that it will be done in any reasonable time? Would, for example, great football institutions like Harvard and Notre Dame, or Chicago and the University of Southern California, forgo games in which some hundreds of thousands of dollars are realized at a single gathering? Perhaps they will in time, but the time may be in the long future. If one of good old colleges had the courage to do this, it would reap a reward beyond its wildest expectations...