Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blue laws are as yet of too deep a hue to be dissolved by any pigment, whether it be red or merely a rosy pink. So until New England has forgotten the strain of her ancestors, the persecutors of Hester Prynne, she will continue to confuse issues and to forget, the phrase on the cacutcheon--"Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense...
...weekly or fortnightly quiz, given for the purpose of keeping the student on the job, as it actually works in most cases, fosters pernicious methods of study. The students do what is expressed by a very familiar phrase, "cram up for the quiz and forget it." They read up the chapters assigned the night before the quiz. There is no time for taking notes. They go to the section meeting remembering words, phrases, and paragraphs-mere print-and spit out all those which seem to have any application to the questions, with a sensation of relief at being...
...Assembly. They have considered international activity in all aspects and they have surveyed their policy and I am convinced have decided their future program. Not one of them will for a moment dream of evading the unwritten engagements it has contracted in this hall. Not one of them will forget the discussions that have taken place or the conclusions that have been reached. That is the true contribution of the League to the world unity. That is its strength and that is its future...
Commander Savage presented the Legion's compliments. M. Clemenceau replied: "I no longer represent France, because I am too old. Yet I can assure you that she will never forget...
...Opposition; moderates became reactionaries; even Socialists were swayed to monarchism; the onetime Emperor became almost a martyr and his little son, "King" Otto, became a national idol. Count Albert Apponyi was one of the last Hungarian statesmen to see his rightful King alive. Said he once: "I shall never forget the shame of visiting His Majesty at the abbey at Tihany [where he was temporarily imprisoned by Hungarian troops prior to his delivery to the British]. If I had never been a monarchist before, I should have become one during my painful, short conversation with the King. I assured...