Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ship-owners, said he, must forget the class idea. Let them retain a few de luxe boats for those who have de luxe incomes. Let the other boats be operated as hotels with rooms of varying price but with all decks open to all guests; with dining rooms for those who wish to tip waiters and with cafeterias for those who wish to collect and carry their...
American imitation has always been something more than flattery, possibly because of our happy ability to forget the origins of our imitations. Of late years sophistication has produced a school that will have nothing that is not indigenous. In the resulting quarrel between the imitators and the originators the subject matter has often been forgotten in the delight of dispute. This is true even of a place so remote from the rest of America as Harvard. The "Oxford tutorial system" has been praised or decried, but not studied. It is not of course desirable that the Oxford system be separated...
...several years has conspired with farmers and sign-painters to initiate passers-by into the historic past of Hicks Corners and Pumpkin Village is to be thwarted. The murderous motorist will no longer be reminded that Elljah Stockbridge was shot here by Indians, and joy-riders, pleasure bent, will forget that in this village Deacon Whosis was placed in the stocks for kissing his wife on Sunday. The whole restraining force of tradition will be incredibly weakened by the removal of these landmarks of a glorious past...
...greatest individual feat of the contest was the half-mile run between Watters of Harvard and Leness, famed Tech mid-distance man. Those, who witnessed the race will not soon forget the astonishing pace the palr set up from the crack of the pistol. Physically both men appeared in excellent shape, but as in all athletic competition physical condition is not all that counts. Undoubtedly Watters ran a more heady race than Leness and consequently he broke the worsted two yards in the lead. The Crimson half-miler took advantage of the Engineer's broad back to shelter him from...
...Cachin, Communist, berated the Finance Minister because he and noc the Communists had been amnestied. "We ask of you," he pleaded, "not to forget those other unfortunates who await their liberation. With you in power, amnesty ought to be complete...