Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fifteen city councilmen were elected by the wards they came from. This meant that the man who represented the Brattle Street ward wanted to promote the interests of that particular locality, and neither knew nor cared about the affairs of East Cambridge. The tendency has been to neglect the general welfare of the whole city and satisfy ward supporters by pulling wires on their behalf, even if it meant depriving some other section of long-needed reforms. The University community, which includes wards seven, eight and nine, has lined up on one side of the fence; across from it were...
...provided that we in turn dominate this hemisphere. Such people argue that a stalemate in the Battle of Great Britain with a compromise peace would be the best possible outcome of the present war. I wish I could agree. But those who hold such views, it seems to me, neglect entirely the time required for an effective rearmament of this country. More important still these same people, in my opinion, fail to understand the true nature of our peril. They fail to realize that we today are witnessing an event in human history analogous to the sweep of Mohammed...
...explanation of the drop in exports was advanced last month by Defense Commissioner William S. Knudsen: airplane manufacturers had to concentrate on expanding their capacity for future production, temporarily neglect current output. Manufacturers did in fact have their hands full building, staffing and tooling new plants. But Bill Knudsen by last week had decided that the present aircraft industry could not supply the entire future demand. For help, he had gone to his own automobile industry...
...good deal more sophisticated musically than the audience of five years ago; through records and the radio, it has gotten to know much great music, and it demands in consequence a more varied fare than the old concert repertoire. Laziness, too, may account for the way conductors tend to neglect many equally good, but less known works. It takes time, energy and patience to train as orchestra in a new piece, which may be the reason why Barbirolli continues to ride his hobbyhorses of Weber overtures when he might well be exploring the overtures of Gluck and Handel...
...Edward S. Harkness donated $250,000 for cancer research. The hospital was able to introduce treatment by large amounts of radium at a distance (tele-radium therapy). "Up to that time," says Dr. James Ewing, Memorial's grand old man of oncology, "the hospital had enjoyed the studied neglect of the public, while the medical profession had let us severely alone...