Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unless we can bring the intelligence and courage of the engineer into industrial statesmanship. If increased wages and profits are to absorb the savings which the engineer produces . . . and there is not a reduction in price, which is essential to increasing consumption, thereby we are ourselves by our own neglect producing that mass of technological unemployment...
...work in some of the more anarchic courses, or in helping the Freshman to find his footing in Harvard, or in this of that worthy purpose. Presumably some help is given, but few have the face to deny that the cash payment is usually made to facilitate the complete neglect of work (more extra-curricular activity, if you will) and not to direct the poor lost sheep to the proper shelf of the Widener reading room...
...extent, Germany and France. On the political side, it would not do to forget the number of Latin American countries which have presidents in name but dictators in point of fact, who might well be sympathetically disposed towards similar, dictator-controlled nations. And, lastly, it would be inexcusable to neglect potent racial minorities in several of the South American countries, whose heritage might lead them to involve their nations with the European states most likely to become embroiled...
...London banks in mortal fear of Communists. Famed for his self-confessed seductions, he dropped more than one hint confirming rumors of his sexual impotence, but threatened to vindicate his virility through the public courts. A onetime Irish Nationalist, he later served a term as sheriff, brooded over his neglect by the English aristocracy, became so agitated when finally given an audience in 1930 with the Prince of Wales that his nose bled violently...
...mere suggestion is probably an affront to professorial dignity; the grumblings about the "pressure of work" can almost be recognized now. Yet a few lectures a year are not going to break their backs, even if they assume the camel's form. English A suffers more from neglect than anything else. If English A is to be recognized for what it is, the most important course in college, if it is to accomplish what it sets out to do, make competent writers, it must be served by the moguls of the Department...