Word: neglectment
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...Congress President Roosevelt last week sent a message calling attention to a report of the National Resources Committee, entitled Little Waters. Said the President: "It is not suggested that we neglect our main streams and give our whole attention to these little waters, but we must have, literally, a plan which will envisage the problem as it is presented in every farm, every pasture, every wood lot, every acre of the public domain...
...Jewish princess, lasted, Josephus and his fellows made hay. But the affair came to an end, and to win back his waning popularity, Titus gave freer rein to the antiSemites. Josephus' wife and son left him; his other son (by an earlier marriage) died, partly through his neglect. He went back to Judea, visited the desolate site of what had once been Jerusalem, saw how vexed the land was by its Roman conquerors, by a dangerous new sect called Minaeans or Christians, by the iron orthodoxy of the Jewish doctors of the Law. Sadly he returned to Rome again...
Flagellation was the routine official punishment for small offenses and neglect of duties by the privates and non-commissioned officers. The guilty soldier was formally subjected to a medical examination about his heart and lungs to find how many strokes he could stand. Then, before the sunset a regimental parade was held in the drilling yard of the barracks or on the main square of the camp, the guilty soldier lay prone at the centre on a piece of rush mat or burlap, surrounded by the commanding officers and the rows of the armed units. The regimental band of music...
...most ironic in the history of U. S. culture. Sophisticated readers may ignore his achievements, may feel considerable discomfort that such a writer could be widely hailed and honored as a U. S. spokesman at a time when stronger talents were condemned to frustration and neglect. Nor are such readers likely to derive much enjoyment from Tertius van Dyke's pious biography of his father, with its exact and well-documented accounts of Henry van Dyke's fishing trips, its exhaustive records of his ineffectual activities in politics, its methodical report of his achievements as pastor...
...dance was this week published by Lincoln Kirstein. It proved him no idle dabbler in the subject but an enthusiastic scholar, equipped with information worthy of one twice his years.* If the pattern of Dance is sometimes involved and cluttered, it is because Author Kirstein was unwilling to neglect any phase or style of dancing which even remotely contributed to the evolution of the art as it is currently known. He begins with primitive tribes which danced instinctively to celebrate birth, adolescence, fertility, danced when they needed rain, danced for hunting, planting, warring, danced over their sick, danced over their...