Word: languishment
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...Fairmount Park Art Association reckoned without frizzle-bearded Joseph Bunford Samuel, Mrs. Samuel's husband. For Statue No. 1 in the series, Mr. Samuel himself commissioned Icelandic Sculptor Einar Jönsson to do a heroic bronze Viking, presented it to the Park. It was left to languish in a toolshed. Mr. Samuel thereupon began to fight. After several years he got the Viking put up at the end of Boathouse...
Opposition to the teaching of evolution in U. S. schools did not die out-or even languish-after the death of the most celebrated anti-evolutionist. Teacher Scopes was fined $100 (later remitted) and left Tennessee;* The Tennessee anti-evolution law still stands. Restrictive laws are also on the statute books of Mississippi an Arkansas. Dr. Oscar Riddle of the Carnegie Institution, one of the ablest biologists in the U. S., charges that there is even more pussyfooting in present-day textbooks than there was three decades...
...personality would be subdued by his steel poll success; but yesterday he overstepped not only the bounds of prudence but also of political common sense. For the C.I.O. chief was not satisfied with merely deploring the action of the judge who has forced labor workers Hapgood and aids to "languish" behind cold steel. Lewis stated that he blamed the State and all the people in the State for allowing such a thing to happen. In fact, he expressed the hope that no person connected with or interested in the C.I.O. would spend any money vacationing in Maine...
...senior made to languish...
Last week its onetime Adminstrator got down to NRA proper in the first of a series of seven articles titled "The Blue Eagle from Egg to Earth." His thesis: "I think that NRA has been put to sleep, that the Codes are being allowed to languish, that the Blue Eagle, without which it cannot live, is dying, that the principles on which the whole plan proceeded are being ignored, and, worst of all, that control of its policies is passing to people who opposed them from the beginning...