Word: languishment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would reduce the burden of lecturing to the minimum. At Harvard it would allow the upper stratum of the faculty, now overweighted with course work, to devote more of its time to individual and tutorial studies. These benefits cannot be secured if the Film Foundation is allowed to languish in silence to an unmourned demise. Stimulated by an increased use of its productions in courses, it might be placed upon a firm financial basis. It should then be absorbed into the academic structure and its services placed at the disposal of other departments. Action along these lines should be taken...
...Republicans could take serious issue with Governor Roosevelt's rail plan because too many of its features were good G. O. P. doctrine which had been allowed to languish in a Washington preoccupied for three years with more immediate problems...
...built in a government factory. Instead of having his own practice, he would be paid a salary?possibly $5,000 or $10,000?by a State agency controlling all legal services. He would be assigned to cases much as attorneys are now assigned by the court. Corporate litigation would languish and die. The Law, and like it Medicine, would become a profitless institutional affair for the common good...
...time in a wasp-powered red-&-gold Lockheed. In the four years since her first flight "G. P." had rarely been far in the background of her career. He had backed her flying and, astute about publicity, nurtured her fame when she by her reticence might have let it languish. Two years ago he married her. Now she was flying toward Paris on the fifth anniversary of Lindbergh's flight...
...Westminster Abbey. He was a breath-taking swell; far sweller than the lacy-sleeved heroes of his dramas. Even Captain Jack Absolute of The Rivals pales by comparison with his dashing creator. Captain Jack, as everyone well-versed in English drama knows, conducts his courtship of Miss Lydia Languish under an assumed name, because she is so rich herself that she fancies a penurious lover. Lydia is in care of the imposing, loquacious Mrs. Malaprop, who moves with the majesty of a beribboned frigate and boggles the English tongue in a way which has become literary legend. Transfixed with astonishment...