Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Republican Rule, 1921. Politics depraved; one Secretary disgraced, another incapable, a third shockingly unfit. Veterans' Bureau filled with fraud and neglect. Oil leases made criminally; censure of those who exposed crime. A vote for Coolidge is a vote for chaos...
Consequently, those grim optimists who look to see war abolished with the appearance of more effective weapons neglect the most important factor--the human element. When humanity has lost a certain fraction, It cries for peace. Before that time, the more threat of untried devices is unlikely to deter any nation which feels the cosmic urge of battle...
...favor all measures, either through the league or outside it, looking towards the concerted reduction of all classes of armament; but until such concert is reached among the nations, we favor the maintenance of our national defenses and condemn the Republican Administration for its neglect of our military and naval establishments...
...scores of daguerreotypes (1840-1860) culled from the private albums of the oldest Philadelphia families. In defense of daguerreotypes, it was pointed out out that "as documents of human interest . . . they are more truthful in their revelation of personality than is the modern development. . . . Nor did the pioneer photographer neglect a fine appreciation for spacing and composition in the arrangement of his subject on the plate." "The elusive half smile, half frown of the posed groups" was traced to "the awkward time* required for the photographic process...
...series of patent suits which bring up for consideration the whole problem of broadcasting. But this apparently commendable impulse has been uncharitably criticized as an attempt to again complete control of the new industry. Certainly the defense of the company's proceedings which was based on the argument that neglect to sue would "in effect dedicate valuable property to the public" rings sharply of self-interest, rather than of a desire to promote public good. And theories arguing that the quickest way to secure governmental regulation of any industry, and thus further public interests, is to foster the growth...