Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forget that our American friends are great experts in trading. They love trading as they love sport. A curious story I heard today is an illustration of that fact. The story is too good not to be true...
...place where all may become acquainted; the place where one can best see college life. For those who are in Cambridge for the first time, it is a haven of refuge, it is a place near the "yard" where all may meet; a place where one may forget, for a while the wories of getting settled and lose himself in the pleasure of reading his home newspaper, or in a game of pool, or billiards, or bridge...
...With the fall of the Protocol statemen abandoned the League as a valid champion of the status quo and returned toward the old system of security compacts or treaties. Germany cried aloud that she needed to be protected, and offered: a) To forget Alsace, b) To guarantee the French and possibly the Polish Czecho-Slovakia frontiers (TIME, Aug. 13) in return for guarantees as to her own safety from Britain and France. Since then the exchange of "notes" and "conversations" has been endless. Britain has shown an inclination toward the business and has talked about having Germany enter the League...
...mediocre man is successful in a game of skill only so long as he can forget drama and concentrate on the physical act; to remember, when aiming his last white tiddlewink at the cup, that his mother is looking on, spells ruin. But champions steal a vigor from exigency and use the electric air of crises as a wine. Perhaps the foremost exponent of this ability is William Tilden. No other personage engaged in sport has an equal sense of the dramatic...
...deliver them out of their peril, they swear to burn every evening a tall candle before His Mother's shrine; if he will let their darling live, they will erect a church to his glory. The sea grows calm; disease leaves the wracked body. Men smile, and forthwith forget both their anguish and their vows. Not so Oscar E. Konkle, President of the Realty Sureties, Inc., of Manhattan...