Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last we forget what has happened in this 1936-1937 academic year . . . . last we forget what has appeared in column five every morning, it might be well to summarize the events of the last year. Political, social, economic, and academic events they are, and some of us will no doubt remember that we were once dismayed by the fact that the country had all "gone Roosevelt", shocked by the dismissal of Walsh and Sweezy, or jubliant over a swimming team that beat Yale...
...amnesty is not rehabilitation," he explained last week, "and not a pardon. It merely means to forget the past and let bygones be bygones...
...Tribune, worked for brief spells on the Morning Journal (now the New York American), Financial & Mining News, as business manager of the Standard Theatre. In 1883 Henderson joined the staff of the New York Times, and four years later he was made its music critic. But editors did not forget Billy Henderson's fine news stories on the death of William Henry Vanderbilt and the blowing up of Flood Rock. When, in 1889, the great flood destroyed Johnstown, Pa., the Times sent him to get the story...
...fellows bowed down by the dread anticipation of today's examinations. The war half over for me, with two examinations passed and almost forgotten and two waiting several days hence. Across my mind a quick flash of business cycles, wage differentials, currency restrictions, and then the determinations to forget these dolorous tasks for yet another day until Cambridge may become less like the Belgian Congo and more like Cambridge...
What remained true was that, from a political standpoint, 150 rich men could do much to make the country forget Nine Old Men. Politicians calculated that with the Wages & Hours bill which he proposed fortnight ago, plus a red-hot new hunt for malefactors of great wealth, the President might recover some of the popularity he had lost on the Supreme Court issue...