Word: neglectment
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...know last week so long as Ambassador Wilson remained on the high seas. With the Ambassador's landing this week, the President may make up his mind: 1) to construe the pogrom as a discrimination against U. S. trade and flex the tariff on German goods; 2) to neglect to send Ambassador Wilson back, a diplomatic slap; 3) to ask Congress temporarily to increase the immigration quota for German refugees. Germany's and Austria's combined quota of emigrants...
Along with these portraits Philosopher Edman does not neglect philosophical morals, which consist mainly of advice not to become panicky about the way the contemporary world is going. Spinoza, he points out, went on grinding lenses for a living while war and revolution raged around him in Holland, and Santayana, Edman's Master, meditates serenely on Essences under the very shadow of Mussolini's jaw. Readers will envy Philosopher Edman his ability to enjoy himself. They will not be able to figure out, from this book, quite how to imitate him and may wonder if his poise...
...point so superbly stated to you this summer by Dr. Baxter when he said, "Shocking as is the paradox of poverty amid abundance, of millions in want in a land whose productive resources are enormous and capable of enormous expansion, it is no more shocking than the neglect of opportunity for education by thousands of those who are privileged to be enrolled in our institutions of learning, and who have, of their own choice, consigned themselves to intellectual poverty in the midst of plenty." --The Williams Record...
...Aeronautics Act of 1938 emerged with most of the Administration-backed features retained. But one last safeguard against complete White House domination of the authority had been stamped on the final draft by Pat McCarran. No member of the authority except its administrator may be dismissed except for inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office...
...poor, not by Governmental spending, not by raising wages, but by a sustained industrial policy of cutting prices. Price reductions, say the Brookings books, are a basic part of the capitalistic formula-but for one reason or another in the last 20 years have fallen into disrepute and neglect with most capitalists...