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Word: forsook (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...racquetmen, the Englishmen would have had no actual contact with this University until the match began. In fact, there might have been no match at all, as they did not even know where to inquire about the time and place of the encounter. The one or two racquetmen, however, forsook their study for hour examinations, took their visitors to supper, and put them up in their rooms or those of friends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MENAGERIE | 3/31/1938 | See Source »

Turning to radio, Kathleen auditioned herself into the lead in a nationally known domestic serial, Doc Harding's Wife. When a part opened for her in One Thing After Another, she gladly forsook the microphone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Thing After Another | 3/2/1938 | See Source »

...insurance salesman James Roosevelt was an instant success. As son of the then Governor of New York and likeliest future President of the U. S., he had many valuable contacts. Business boomed so fast that James Roosevelt forsook the law school after one year to spend all his time acquiring financial independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Modern Mercury | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...Island, Hawaii, was very beautiful. Volcanoes had scattered lava over two-thirds of the island so that one could not see the land at all. On the other third cattle browsed and sugarcane grew--these on the Parker ranch, owned by a young man who forsook farming for Hollywood, where the producers own everything including their own language and where Ralph Forbes cannot pronounce "promiscuously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/1/1937 | See Source »

...Mellon's Millions) offered The Guggenheims, a well-documented unraveling of the complex history of the Guggenheim mining fortune that made U. S. novelists' omission seem even more remarkable. Like the Buddenbrooks and Forsytes, the Guggenheim family began with sober business men, many of whose latest descendants forsook business for the arts, involved complicated family relationships, fierce squabbles. But unlike their counterparts in European fiction, the Guggenheims pictured by Harvey O'Connor have operated on a scale calculated to dazzle the most imaginative novelists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guggles | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

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