Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Cvcling Assoclation.Owing to the bad condition of the roads the Cycling Association may abandon the road race which was to be held between the seventh and the twelfth of this month...
...used to be said that a strong argument could be found in the intuition which men have of immortality. This is to give up scientific research and abandon ourselves to mystery...
...Yale corporation has accepted the resignation of James Dwight Dana, the oldest professor connected with the university. Professor Dana is one of the foremost American scientists, and is obliged by advanced age to abandon further work. He is eighty-one years old and graduated from Yale in the class of 1833. He returned to college as tutor and studied under Stillman the elder, and succeeded to a full professorship fifty years ago. Since then he has had full charge of the department of natural science. He has been honored by Harvard and other colleges in America and by German universities...
...party of our fellow students had become known, the fear arose that the disaster was even greater than was at first supposed and that a fifth student had met his death. Nothing, however, could be learned definitely as to his fate, and we were not forced to abandon the hope that he might yet prove to be alive. His mother was very ill, and it was earnestly desired that she might be spared the shock which any whisper of danger to her son would cause and which, perhaps, she could be spared altogether. The circumstances were laid before the Boston...
...worldly sense. Yet the command to the young man to give up his possessions was only incidental to the promise of eternal life. Christ knew that the young man's wealth would hinder him in a disciple's work. In the same way he requires us to abandon only what stands in the way of our welfare. Religion does not prevent us from attaining worldly success, and we are not called upon to relinquish anything that is consistent with true christian living...