Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with some homely usefulness. America, he says, is the quack's happy home. Some of our best families were founded in quackery. He recalls the 50-year vogue of lithium water, then the hypnotic wave made classic in Trilby and finally dooms modern psychoanalysis to the same neglect into which both the previous obsessions have fallen. Cures associated with superstition are also mentioned. Even in the 19th Century a peculiar efficacy was supposed to attach to the rope which had hanged...
...romance of Vermeer's resurrection after two centuries of neglect adds to the subtle fascination of his art. His pictures were forgotten and passed for DeHoochs, Metsus, Ter Borchs, even Rembrandts. Not until 1860 did the critics Burger and Havard put together the scattered evidences of his life and work. Even now there are but 37 authenticated Vermeers known - eight in the United States- and it is almost a certainty that more will be unearthed from the dust of European attics. Apart from their rarity, the qualities which give Vermeer's canvases their coveted value are their handling...
...passed the last few years in probing the depths of disaster and despair, should work so bravely and well to keep up its musical culture has provoked endless wonderment. The Austrian may be short of all the necessaries, with starvation and revolution looming before him, but still, admitting no neglect, he goes to concert and to Mass...
...shops, a system of inspection and skilled, experienced pilots. Twelve accidents and injury to seven persons are debited to these companies in the greatest year of flying in American aviation. But the "gypsy" pilots, young, inexperienced men who buy obsolete Government equipment for a few hundred dollars a plane, neglect repairs, fly anywhere and secure passengers where and how they can, have a sorry record of 122 accidents and injury to 100 persons. Poor equipment, lack of inspection, poor piloting and stunting were largely responsible for the mishaps...
...some compensation. They are "casting their bread upon the waters", and the vigor with which they maintain this fruitful tradition will be reflected, even unto the second and third generations; for in May, 1926, their bread will "return again". Such an extremely intelligent and capable Freshman class will not neglect this opportunity to provide for old age and an impoverished future...