Word: foregoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interests. In 1920 the Supreme Court ordered the anthracite carriers to divest themselves of their coal properties. According to Mr. Maudlin, the result of that order was that both mines and railroads fell into the hands of Morgan & friends. And Mr. Maudlin reported: "Under such a situation they can forego profits on the production of anthracite and recoup them in high freight rates, thereby forcing the independent companies . . . to operate on a very close margin . . . and preventing them from providing any real competition...
...Macomb, Ill., a freshman at Western Illinois State Teachers College gave the "hot foot"* to sleeping Red Henderson, No. 1 place-kicker on the college football team. Place-kicker Henderson awoke abruptly, took to crutches, was forced to forego place-kicking for several weeks because of a badly blistered foot...
...famed for its "waters," silk-bearded Haile Selassie, former Emperor of Ethiopia, has long been in exile working studiously on his memoirs. By last week the memoirs were nearly finished; arrangements had been made for their publication. Suddenly Publisher Michael Joseph announced that the Emperor had been "compelled" to forego publication on orders of his "political advisers." London wiseacres nodded significantly; it would be a great embarrassment to the Government to find public opinion being whipped up for an Emperor who might at any moment be declared officially throneless...
...should never be used. The same precautions should be taken in the administration of oil preparations by mouth." On the other hand, Dr. Isaac Newton Kugelmass, another sensible specialist, said: "Oil medication is an effective means of treating certain conditions in older children, and we must not forego it because some parents are not careful in applying the drops. But in young children only water soluble nose medication should be used in the home...
...eleven o'clock tomorrow morning several hundred Harvard students will forego the rest of their classes for the day and hie themselves to the Boston Common, there to join with several thousand other New England collegians for a meeting in the interests of peace. Their mass demonstration will take the form of a strike, and this strike will be notable for the number and variety of issues they oppose. Not satisfied with merely crusading for an abstract, effervescent peace, the students have decided to direct their disapproval against war and the forces which make for war; compulsory military training...