Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seconds during which you hear the needle scraping around the record. Mistakes like these spoil the continuity of a work, and can, if listened to repeatedly, become infuriating. However, until such time as Victor finds its sales lagging or its critics too loud to ignore, it will continue to neglect these points, and sit preening its feathers on its contribution to American culture...
...Neglect of Research...
Both tutors and students are seriously concerned about the future of the tutorial system. The period when neglect was salutary has come to an end. The problem of tonure, the pressure to make young men publish, and the feeling that the Administration is doubtful of the value of tutorial-as witnessed by the effort to reduce the amount of tutoring through Plan B-are weakening the tutorial system. The Administration and the departments must take positive steps if Harvard is to preserve, unimpaired, two of its most important assets-tutorial instruction and the morale of the tutors...
Other things happen to Sepp. He has argued now & again with his intelligent, stodgy, Communist son; by his neglect he has brought his wife to suicide. Without at all realizing how, he has brought himself free of the reverential, abstract chilliness which inhibited his music. At book's end he sits hearing (over the radio), the first performance of the first great music he has written, the Waiting-Room Symphony...
...Junior or Senior not on the Dean's List whose last class before or first class after the April recess is in a course in which attendance is regularly taken, absence will not mean immediate disciplinary action, but such absence will naturally be regarded as an indication of neglect of work if a student's record becomes unsatisfactory...