Word: regretted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...balance due the Graduate School of Business Administration of Harvard University for expenses of the 1930 Harvard Advertising Awards, and that the Secretary be instructed to notify the Administrators of these Awards that, in view of the reduction of income of the Foundation, it becomes necessary, much to the regret of the Directors of the Foundation, to discontinue the Harvard Advertising Awards...
Calling together his faculty, he said: "My only regret in going is that I shall never be able to stand before another Baylor student body." On the campus students asked: "What's the latest?" and the reply came: "Condition unchanged." The Texas Legislature sent a message of sympathy. His oldtime roommate came, Pat Neff who, chairman of Baylor's board of trustees, was a likely choice as his successor...
Brown, who failed in three trials only by a narrow margin to better his own newly-established record, is a nephew of R. A. Gardner, Eli bamboo expert who was first to soar successfully at 13 ft. Crimson spectators commented with regret that the new interscholastic champion is intending to join the already powerful Blue vaulting squad "Brown has a good sturdy build," Mikkola commented "though he doesn't hold himself as straight as Sutermeister. It's too early to may whether he will ever go on to break would records: he may reach 14 ft. and then stop...
...with sincere regret that the Vagabond once more is forced to comment upon the dehabilitating effects of hot weather. Spring fever usually arrives the last week in April and departs promptly on May Day, but this year things have been different. Spring fever has beset the Vagabond with a vengeance, and at present the ailment has announced no definite date of departure...
Rarely, if ever, has a U. S. statesman, in Death, evoked such widespread and sincere expressions of personal regret as Nicholas Longworth. Behind the trite formality of eulogies-for-the-Press was a ring of honest mourning. The nation had lost its Speaker but there would be others; a multitude of people, high and low, had lost a charming friend who could not be replaced. The range of his friendships was reflected in the long list of honorary pallbearers, including William ("Wild Bill") Donovan and Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr., Joseph Leiter and Efrem Zimbalist, Will Rogers and Clarence Mackay, Albert Lasker...