Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...listen to me, wife, "Come closely while I tell, "When I am gone, please don't forget me- "The one who loves you well...
...workmen built on the brink of the gorge. The prospect of Boulder Dam brought land booms at Las Vegas, Nev. and Kingman, Ariz. But so slow has the government been in getting started that these have mostly collapsed. Last week a gold strike outside Kingman made speculators forget Boulder...
...million citizens of the I those who see these words will nearly all believe them to be flatly contrary to fact, will promptly forget them. But of the 150 million citizens of the Soviet Union, many if not all who read will stoutly believe...
...received any adequate explanation. As the letter points out, a review of the examination is desirable for uncovering the weak as well as the good points of the student's knowledge of the course on which he has been tested. The usual habit of the average undergraduate is to forget all about the particular questions asked on the examination as soon as he has received notice of his grade in the course. A passing mark, the immediate goal, assumes precedence over the far more important aim of possessing a comprehensive acquaintance with the subject matter of the course...
...placing the sinking Sophomore on probation the authorities seem to defeat one of the major principles of educators. They forget that with a more mature perspective acquired in the last two years of college, the student is much better qualified to meet this latest wrinkle of higher education with a more proper appreciation...