Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hunts in picturesque attire, confides to pressmen that he loves birds, flowers, wolfhounds, but no woman-and witless rumors fly. Behind the iridescent screen of these puerilities, the old Tsar tweaks many a string, moves about Europe in welcome obscurity, continues to be a force which statesmen do not neglect to recognize...
...special session of the legislature for impeachment proceedings against Judge I. Grant Lazzelle of the Monongalia County circuit. The miners charged that Judge Lazzelle, who, with his brothers and sister, leases coal lands to operators in Monongalia County and enjoys fat royalties, was guilty of "maladministration, corruption, incompetency and neglect of duty." Lately he refused the miners an injunction against four coal companies that had allegedly abrogated "a most solemn contract," two of the companies being headed by the lessee of Judge Lazzelle's property...
Harvard furnished the first striking example of the new journalism in action. In 1924 the CRIMSON was the first to point out the official neglect of Professor George P. Baker's famous '47, Workshop. As the CRIMSON stated, the university officials permitted the Business School to get five million dollars, while "Professor Baker was actually forbidden to raise money." The CRIMSON lost the fight -- Professor Baker left for Yale--but a note was struck in college journalism that has since been echoed in many a college...
...ancient well-wisher of the CRIMSON would like to attribute this neglect rather to excess of enthusiasm and lack of thought, than to any deliberate attempt to confuse and mislead your readers. Perhaps it is not yet too late to rectify your omission. I trust that this letter, at least, may find a place in your paper. Very sincerely yours, Garrett Mattingly...
...American Association of University Professors in their April Bulletin accuse excessive attention to intercollegiate football as distorting values which remain with college men through life, as causing neglect of those intellectual interests which furnish "the fundamental purpose of a college education...