Word: disregarded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prove to the public how economical they are. Until an adequate budget system is evolved to take care of the millions as well as the pennies, the public funds will be in a large measure wasted. The periodic investigations of Robert, the cat, will go on. The elephant will disregard the trees that need to be uprooted and keep on picking up the pins...
...people in America may be divided into two groups; those who believe China should retain possession of Shantung, and those who believe the sovereignty of that land is necessary to development and prosperity of Japan. And these two classes are each partial to their own view, tending to disregard the claims of the opposite side. It is on the sentiment of the Chinese people toward this question that the words of the Right Reverend Logan Herbert Roots '91, D.D., Bishop of Hankow, China, are of special moment...
...needs of the service require your entire attention, you will, of course, disregard, for the present, all your obligations to Harvard, except the supreme obligation of representing her worthily in this crisis." This statement issued by President Lowell to Harvard students, now in the service of the Commonwealth, typifies ideals for which Harvard University stands,-devotion to the government, upholding its power abroad and at home. President Lowell is not bound by a false sense of values. If need be registration and the listing of studies can be delayed; duty to the state comes first...
...Infantry, for bravery under fire. During the advance from the Aisne near Pincon Farm on September 7, 1918, when his company was obliged to fall back on account of heavy shelling, and after suffering heavy casualties in bringing his men from the field to their new position, with absolute disregard for his own personal safety, Freedman returned and directed the work of bringing in the dead and wounded, and in doing so was himself severely wounded...
...Bailey, has recently received his third citation. He enlisted February, 1917, as an ambulance driver in the French Army and has served continuously since then. Early in 1918 he was first cited and received the Croix de Guerre. Later he received a citation with the palm for "showing utter disregard of danger during an attack while keeping up communication between advanced posts despite extreme barrage fire, during which his ambulance was struck by numerous fragments of shell". His last citation, word of which has just been received, was for "particularly distinguishing himself under fire during the crossing of the Aisne...