Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonel Lindberg, the man who knows more about mail flying than anybody else in America, is here conferring with the Secretary of War and will see the President. If the Administration will forget Colonel Lnidbergh's public protest and devote itself now to straightening out the whole mess, there is nobody who can be of more help than the Colonel. He is an army reserve officer. If the War Department authorized him to organize the service and arrange for the letting of contracts for temporary service with the existing companies, until such time as the legistlation could be perfected...
...shall not forget the farmers' interest, to which I have devoted myself for at least a decade. I have said on many occasions that I am in politics for agriculture, not in agriculture for politics. I call attention to the fact that for many years I have advocated expansion of our agricultural exports. . . . Increased export of agricultural products to some countries is possible to some extent in spite of existing handicaps, while exports of industrial products alone are possible to certain other countries. Both types of exports can benefit the farmer...
...penology. The new ideas implies a steady concentration and persistence. The old idea needs simply emotional outbursts. Most people grew up on the old idea and find it hard to be converted. You can use the old method without thinking. You just clap a man into a cell and forget it. The new ideas involving discussions with the men, and inquires into their character and records, requires patience and intelligence...
...splitting infinitives and misusing words; we can smile tolerantly when he tells us that Edmund Burke was a Democrat and "A Vindication of Natural Society" the most sincere expression of his political philosophy; we can, with an effort, keep our gorge down when he says he can never forget a certain line in "Kubla Khan" and proceeds to mangle its beauty by misquotation. But when, after rising in a valiant crescendo of commonplace through pages and pages of the quintessential trite, he comes forth with the astounding conclusion that "Literature is Life," we can only throw down the book...
...other colleges. The resulting repetition of work and the lack of standardization can be eliminated only through the supervision of a national body. The Carnegie Foundation possesses the elements essential for the erection of such a body, and might grow into an institution of great significance if it could forget football and devote itself to education...