Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college officers in charge can correct the situation. The great body of Harvard graduates throughout the country is waiting for them to take the first step that will reestablish Harvard in the public esteem to which she is so well entitled, but which no college can afford to neglect. Yours very truly, Theodore S. Kenyon...
...honest publisher who prints, believing them to be genuine, documents falsely assailing the honor of public men is guilty of culpable neglect. The publisher who prints such documents not even believing them to be true; who makes no effort to ascertain if they are true; who disregards internal evidence suggesting that they are forgeries, and who seeks to protect himself against libel suits by partly blotting out names which yet remain identifiable by the associates of the men traduced-that publisher is a disgrace to the profession." Since one of the Hearst documents purports that $25,000 was "ordered paid...
That would have been the best day for Death to have waved a hand at William van Schaick. An investigation proved that despite a record of 40 years' service he had been guilty of criminal neglect in not having useful firehose, staunch lifeboats, life-preservers that would float; for allowing rubbish to collect in the store rooms; for having a crew made up, without apparent exception of yokels, cravens or imbeciles; for not giving this crew fire drills...
...aspirations and his pride are out of all proportion to his abilities and his environment. The blood of the old colonnel, his natural father, makes him unwilling to submit to the indignities attendant on the negro's position in society, and his desire for enlightenment leads him to neglect a means of livelihood with the consequence that his family endures poverty and suffering and he earns for himself the cordial hatred of the whites wherever he goes. The final tragedy is striking and effective, leading through the stages of discouragement, unjust injury, a murder of desperation; and finally insanity...
HOUSE OF COMMONS. On the front opposition bench there arose onetime Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald to demand a vote of censure upon the Government for its mismanagement of the coal industry problem and its neglect of the unemployment situation...