Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that without dunking a doughnut is dry eating and may become lodged in the digestive tract. The recent remarkable reductions in time have been due to an improved technique of motion that brings the doughnut from the coffee cup to the mouth in the shortest possible arc. Let us forget our gastronomic niceties for a bit. If one of our number is successful it may signify the beginning of an athletic renaissance. In any event, if doughnuts for breakfast have been substituted for hockey rinks we should not look the gift horse in the face. Appreciation and proper competitive spirit...
...boozy hibernation and begins his hegiras to the pools of Truth. But this year the groundhogs have deceived him, and the Vagabond awakes to find himself in a bitter world of snow, and snow-removers, and more snow. Sitting at his fire with a cheerful glass, he tries to forget, and fancies himself in ancient Attica where it is spring now and the Gods are smiling on humanity. Dinoysus, sitting at Zeus' table, looks down with special pleasure, for this is the time of the spring festival in his honor. Prancing horses and gleaming cars fill Athens as the rich...
...authors did not forget that they represented the American Association of University Professors and that A. A. U. P. champions academic freedom with the same zeal which Chancellor Bowman reserves for his Cathedral of Learning. They found that the Chancellor is an autocrat who called for the resignations of 53 professors at the end of his first year and who warns his faculty in form letters that their contracts may not be renewed. They found that his purge of liberalism has left every faculty member fearing for his job. They found that the charge of irreligion against Professor Turner...
...lest we forget, one of the concerns which have been doing business with the Nationalizers of Women at Moscow is the American Metal Company...
...teachers is not enough. Society as a whole must meet them half way. Education is as fundamental towards carrying on a full-fledged existence as food and work. Cries are heard to dispense with the "frills" of education and return to the three R's. These self-styled economists forget the hard battle civilization has waged to include more than the so-called fundamentals and the imperative need for the most inclusive kind of education possible to meet the increasing complexities of life. In the last analysis, higher education and society itself cannot maintain themselves at the present level, unless...