Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Were Pythagoras to "listen in" on a modern radio concert he would undoubtedly hail it as irrefutable proof of his theory of the "music of the spheres". And in a Greek rapture over this satisfactory conclusion to his speculations he might neglect to discuss the other possible sources of the "heavenly harmony". To some degree the radio novice in his delight over the successful operation of his "set" has likewise forgotten to interest himself in the problems of the origin of those invisible waves which he has set his wires to snare...
...investigate circumstances and facts, and report the same to the Senate, concerning the alleged failure of Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney General of the United States, to prosecute properly violators of the Sherman anti-trust act and the Clayton act against monopolies and unlawful restraint of trade; the alleged neglect and failure of the said Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney General of the United States, to arrest and prosecute Albert B. Fall, Harry F. Sinclair, E. L. Doheny, C. R. Forbes and their co-conspirators in defrauding the Government, as well as the alleged neglect and failure of the said Attorney General...
This is George Washington University the development of George Washington's proposal that there should be at the nation's capital a truly national university, a melting pot of ignorance and prejudice. The idea has survived; the institution has been neglected. But, in spite of neglect, it grows, and is now actively campaigning for a $1,000,000 building and endowment fund...
...various Massachusetts towns, which start out this coming week-end. Their object is to awaken the young people to the worth-while things of life, and to help the older people appreciate the problems and difficulties which constantly confront the young ones and which they frequently misunderstand or neglect altogether. And undoubtedly there is a field for such work an almost unlimited field, in which the success of the deputations must depend, like everything else, on the personalities of the deputies and on the wisdom of their methods...
...unfair to inflict the penalty of probation on men whose grades average C or better because they may have taken two or three cuts a week. They are guilty of negligence in a petty way. But should they suffer the same penalty as those who through sheer neglect of work or lack of intelligence have failed to get their two C's and a D? I think not. Why not make the punishment fit the crime and forbid any cutting among the offenders? HENRY W. ABBOT...