Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would never think, to look at its present neglect, that there is more noble history woven about Holden Chapel than about any other Harvard building. For the first hundred years after the college was founded there was no chapel. Then, in 1741, Mrs. Jane Holden of London made a gift of four hundred pounds "to build a Chapple for the Use of ye College...
Dull Studies, dull Books, I neglect...
...decide for ourselves, are divided into two classes: the nonworkers and the professional uplifters. The nonworkers want women brought back out of industry so they can have plenty of maids. The professional uplifters are working women, all right, but they work for salary instead of wages and they neglect to say for whom they are working. They are willing to sacrifice their sisters in industry to keep their nice jobs." However, since congressional action on the proposed Amendment is quite out of the question during this session of Congress, the hearings may be interpreted chiefly as a compliment...
...foul Neglect and black Probation born...
...indicted by the Westchester County Grand Jury for "perjury and neglect of duty", just the things he had tried to wipe out at Sing Sing. Indignation was aroused throughout the country, however, and the judge dismissed the indictment without even bothering to hear the defendant's plea He finally resigned in October, 1916 after completing his reform at Sing Sing