Word: forsook
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...guitar or one of India's many drums. When Hindus want to see their native dances done in the most authentic, polished fashion they seek out the Hindu Dancer Uday Shankar, protege of the late Maharaja of Jhalawar. who studied at the London Royal College of Arts, forsook painting to dance with the late Anna Pavlowa. forsook Pavlowa to research the old dances and music of Hindustan...
...sport has grown rapidly in popularity during the last few years, and it is rather surprising that Boston College, Boston University, Tufts and other institutions have not gone in for it as enthusiastically as Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since Harry Cowles forsook the Harvard Club of Boston and went to Cambridge, William J. Bingham has had difficulty in providing enough courts; and now M. I. T., under the direction of "Jack" Summers, sometime professional at the Union Boat Club, has become squash-conscious. At B. C., B. U. and other places, the development will be the same...
...Organizer was George Clymer Brooke of Philadelphia. Companions were Joseph Roby Jr. of Rochester, N. Y., Alexander Crosby Brown of Philadelphia, Edward Howard Dodd Jr. of Manhattan, Thomas Marshall of Philadelphia. Last week the Chance was nearing New Haven again. At Australia all but Alexander Brown and Edward Dodd forsook the romantic wayfaring and, except for Organizer Brooke, returned to the U. S. with despatch and comfort. Mr. Brooke found a languorous island with a comfortable house, numerous servants, and a seemingly profitable copra plantation, and settled down. Lorn Messrs. Brown and Dodd found new Yale shipmates and a Harvard...
...College of the City of New York and Columbia University he temporarily forsook the trappings of war to concentrate on fish. In 1886 he became a Tutor of Natural History, in 1896 Assistant Professor of Zoology. In 1890 he won his Ph.D. with a thesis: Pineal Fontanelle of Placaderm and Catfish. His interest in fish and his interest in armor remained parallel. In 1903 he was appointed Curator of Fishes & Reptiles at the Museum of Natural History. In 1906 he became Honorary Curator (without salary) of Arms & Armor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Almost the same time that...
Even to disband a horde of China's motley, half-dressed, rapacious hired troops costs dear. Dismissed soldiers must be given work and a modicum of pay or they will revert to banditry, a profession which most of them forsook to join the colors. Last week Finance Minister T. V. Soong, efficient Harvard graduate, announced a bond issue of $30,750,000 to carry out his economy program of disbanding half China's 356,500 troops (TIME...