Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wreck or misfortune, so abruptly abandoned? Why were these temples, palaces and astronomical observatories of cunningly carved white limestone suddenly left to the bats, the lizards and the sinister little owls the later Indians called "moan birds" and associated with death? It is conceivable that any rice might forget its humble beginnings in the dawn of history. But how came legend to be so silent about the collapse of a cultivated nation whose greatest cities we can now prove were inhabited in the first six centuries of the Christian era?. One reiterates the query, one gropes for an answer, till...
...poetic masterpieces. And Eugene Field, the gaunt man who wrote them, put such a lyric fluency into whatever he wrote that he became known as "the children's laureate." He is best remembered as that today. No grown-up wishing to be popular with children allows himself to forget the words...
...practice was held during the Christmas vacation, much of the December training must be repeated. The early part of this week has been spent in reconditioning. Passing, pivoting, dribbling and all the fundamentals of the court game have been stressed in order that the men will not forget that they are absolutely requisite...
...patrolman grunted. "Keep on your way," he responded without warmth, "and don't forget that's where you're going...
...Holyoke (Mass.) Transcript: "Harvard and also Yale had better forget their radical changes, as it were, and brace up. Be good losers, for they give every evidence of being poor sports, or the name of fair Harvard and Eli Yale will be dragging down in the dust...