Word: foregoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advertisers in your periodical, and I believe I am correct in assuming that you also have countless readers and subscribers out on this Pacific slope; and yet it seems that we are not deemed worthy of a listenin on your advertised broadcast. I for one would be willing to forego Amos & Andy or any other popular radio entertainment, to listen to "The March of Time" in event of the programs clashing...
Those who have been crying from the house-tops in protest against American universities' "compromises with babbittry" can momentarily forego their jeremiads to join in hallelujahs. The existing colleges have passed before the judgement seat and have been found wanting. Now Dr. Flexner, who led the prosecution, is himself to head an "Institute for Advanced Study," which will attempt to supply just what he believes the colleges lack...
...view of the fact that years ago the Vagabond formed a half-hearted resolution to be one of the "world's workers", and forego for the time being anything in the nature of an entangling alliance his reasons may differ slightly from those of some for being present at nine o'clock in Sever, when and where Professor Richards will talk about the late poet laureate. Robert Bridges...
...spoon talent is regarded as unlikely. Albert Spalding's debut was received with a certain suspicion. Says he: "The audience seemed to expect me to come out in a baseball suit." The wise Spaldings lost little time in sizing up the situation. Father Spalding suggested that his son forego subsidized concerts, start barnstorming, play in small towns for small fees. Through Russia, at 22, Albert traveled second and third class, playing one-night stands. No one knew he was the son of a sporting goods tycoon. His manager was a shyster and pocketed all the receipts. But Spalding made...
...Science of Government Emeritus, told a CRIMSON reporter, "and it is of use to know how many of your neighbors think with you. But I must say that my reaction to the results of the balloting is a keen disappointment in seeing that college men are not willing to forego the doubtful pleasure of becoming 'tight' in order that the community as a whole may benefit...