Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forget my sympathies were all with them at the start...
...other nations; and throughout Germany the professors were quarreling over the concepts of State Socialism and State Capitalism, and wondering which was which. Meanwhile the Kaiser and court were fearful that the Socialists in the Reichstag (the Social Democratic Party had 112 seats out of 397 in 1912) might forget their "revisionist" doctrines and adopt the naked class war propounded by Karl Marx. Lacking internal flexibility and with the shaky Austro-Hungarian Empire messing up the possibilities of progress to the east, the German economic system had seemingly reached its limits of growth as far back as 1914, Germany...
...Manhattan, where pudgy, music-loving Mayor LaGuardia had inaugurated a campaign to raise $1,200,000 to finance a World's Fair music festival. With this money, portly Olin Downes, New York Times music critic and Fair music director, proposed to buy Manhattan a festival she would never forget. Two months later news leaked out that the campaign had flopped, that the Fair's most spectacular musical event would be a song fest in the Court of Peace by the world's largest and loudest collection of glee-club singers (5,000 amateur voices...
...railroads as chairman of the National Mediation Board. So good & fair at his calling is William Leiserson that he is often asked to mediate outside the railway field. In his last such important chore, ruling that messenger boys come under the Wage & Hour Law, he did not forget to butter up big Western Union and other complaining companies with kindly words...
Critical of the examination system which permits students to "stuff themselves with the necessary information, spew it forth on a blue book the following morning, and promptly forget it," the lead article in the Student Union publication said that the University would have to make radical changes in the method of teaching and examining before the tutoring schools could be eliminated...