Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...squalor, if one should see it at all. Walking is a pleasant pastime, still profitable and possible in and about Oxford. Will any man forego the walk along the Isis to Ifley, and a peep at the fine Norman village church there? Who has been so listless as to neglect the upper Isis, sampling delicacies and a good tea at the Trout Inn, and pausing to think of Fair Rosamond at the Godstow Nunnery? Boars' Hill, with a view of Oxford on one side and the Berkshire Downs on the other, or Cummor Hurst, or Shotover Hill, are all within...
...John Wesley, man of God, has suffered neglect in an irreligious age, modern popular biography has come abundantly, desperately, to his rescue. Author Lee, spirited Texan Methodist clergyman, enriches a sound, engrossing history with cogent anecdote and incident. Author Lipsky, Jewish student of psychology, makes a shrewd analysis of the itinerant preacher who founded, in spite of himself, the largest extant Protestant denomination...
...Kourim have been married five years. In three of those years, they had three children. Mr. Kourim's salary has been $24 a week. They had many things to quarrel over. Six months ago, they began to live separately. Both sought divorce on charges of cruelty and neglect...
...when smallpox is introduced into a community in the United States it usually finds many victims who have never been vaccinated and others who have not been vaccinated for many years. Nearly 34,000 cases of smallpox in the United States in the calendar year 1927 testify to the neglect of the people to utilize vaccination, the known means of preventing the disease...
...appearance in public during the last few weeks, it has been at the price of a great mental strain. For his soul has been oppressed with the knowledge that dogging his every footstep and growing more huge and ominous every day there has been a dread spectre of Responsibility. Neglect served only to increase the bulk and fearsomeness of the apparition, and so yesterday the Vagabond surrendered and set about making out his Christmas shopping list...