Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is to be known about cakes and pies and children," said Mrs. Roosevelt. "What they want is the real facts about all phases of life today." I strenuously disagree. It seems to me that modern women who go in for "all phases of life day must necessarily neglect the care of their children and the management of their homes. I think it is no reflection on the feminine mind to assert that it doesn't logically absorb facts about government and economics. If women would spend more time in the study of running a home and less...
...Exploration, by Brigadier General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes, him self a distinguished traveler-soldier. The story lingers admiringly with such illustrious voyageurs as Leif the Viking, Marco Polo, Diaz and Vasco da Gama, Columbus and Magellan, Livingstone and Stanley. Doughty and Lawrence, Peary, Scott and Shackleton, but does not neglect a multitude of colorful, less familiar figures. There is Hsuan-tsang, the studious, well born Buddhist monk who, fortified by a dream, passed beyond the Great Wall in 629 A. D., set out across the grim Gobi, finding his way by the bones and droppings of camels. Troubled by mirages...
...neglect of such as important qualification might lead in time to the gradual decline of the University preeminently as an educational institution. There is definitely a place for both the research man and the teacher in any institution of higher learning. Students attend a university for the purpose of preparing themselves either culturally or specifically for a career they intend to pursue afterwards. They want and need men who can lecture to them interestingly and impart their subject matter with skill and clarity. A certain amount of research is necessary in order to keep the subject living and progressive...
...over to others all the cases I had when I came to Washington, and I have not taken a fee from anyone from that day until this. ... I thought it inappropriate for me to be attempting to run back and forth between Washington and my home in Kentucky, and neglect my official duties here while undertaking to practice law on the outside...
...alone have dared to point out the dire need for air defense of London. You have muzzled others who have deplored this shameful neglect. You have treated my patriotic gesture with a contempt such as no other government would have been guilty of toward a patriot...