Word: abandoning
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...however, it is an outworn symbol of the "romantic" period of the late nineteenth century, greatly stressed by headmasters in their talks to parents and alumni, and largely a joke among those who are presumed to practice and revere it. Recently a good many institutions have seen fit to abandon the scheme, confessing that modern youth is too matter-of-fact, if not too cynical, to be persuaded by the chivalrous concepts of Alfred Tennyson...
Aside from the incongruity of virile football songs poured out over Rudy's near-treble tonsils, our curiosity is engaged by reason for the Connecticut Yankee's grudge against Princeton. In the case of Yale, it is evident that he is wreaking his revenge for the gay abandon with which New Haven men break into riots when his voice sobs across the quadrangles from the radio or phonograph of an uninitiated...
After the ceremony Sofia erupted with Bulgar abandon. Public buildings were strung with electric bulbs. Men, women, children clambered like monkeys up the high iron grille of the palace gate, danced in the streets till dawn. Police did not allow the playing of the Fascist hymn "Giovinezza," but revelers sang themselves hoarse with "0 Sole Mio" in Bulgarian. At the palace it was announced, next day, that Their Majesties had slipped out a back door and danced unrecognized in the streets with their subjects...
...monopoly by handling 114 food products other than meat (canned fruits, canned vegetables, dairy goods, cereals), by retailing their own products, by buying heavily into cold storage, stockyard and terminal railroad companies. The packers settled the suit by consenting to drop all production unrelated to the meat industry, to abandon the retail field. In 1920 a Federal Court ratified this consent decree, which the U. S. Supreme Court upheld...
...PLEASE ABANDON DESCRIPTIVE TERM APPLE-CHEEKED IN CONNECTION WITH ENGLISH-GIRL MACDONALD STOP MISLEADING IN SUGGESTING SHAPE AS WELL AS COLOR PERSONALLY OBNOXIOUS SUGGEST TIMES FRUIT & VEGETABLE EDITOR CONSIDER VARIATIONS IN SEASON...