abortive
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Abortive also were attempts to solve the Chaco boundary dispute between Bolivia & Paraguay.
From Time Magazine Archive
Abortive stays at five prep schools and two colleges were transformed into a gilt-edged education at Groton and Yale.
From Time Magazine Archive
All pride and passion and divine desire, Raw, quivering nerve-stuff and devouring fire, Foredoomed to failure though they try and try; Abortive, blindly to destruction hurled; Unfound, unfit to grapple with the world.
From Ballads of a Bohemian by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)
Abortive organs, too, gain significance on the evolutionary hypothesis.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
Index: WM Abortive attempt to capture British batteries at, 133-135; Quebec bombarded from, 115, 116; sailors landed at daily, for military exercises, 120; Wolfe assembles three army corps at, 159.
From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various
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"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "Beyond Vietnam" (1967)
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And Then There Were None
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