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Word: forgetting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Konrad Bercovici does, I should be sure never to be bored of an evening. In this latest book of his, he tries to explain the foreign quarters, and does it admirably; but the joy of discovery can never be ours if we follow a guide book. I shall never forget one or two early pilgrimages with him among strange coffee houses and narrow streets. Why not write a novel, Mr. Bercovici, that will catch the impressive magic of cosmopolitan New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland's Darling | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

Moreover, we forget that the selection of the best students justifies itself only when all the other students have been cared for according to their needs. You can raise up an aristocracy of culture, as a sort of flower of society, but it must flower out of society, not be separated from it. An artist like Poe or like Edward MacDowell seems tragic in his loneliness because so few of as countrymen had at the moment anything like the equipment for appreciating his genius. To develop isolated specimens of culture would be a silly ambition, even if it were possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

...also hope you will not forget the chances for religious education," he continued. There is no true education where religion is left out: You will not be forced to go to chapel or church here but you will be given the opportunity to near very great men. Religious education, however, may be obtained not only in church but in every branch of the college education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1928 PACKS SMITH COMMON ROOM | 9/20/1924 | See Source »

Conditions in 1921. "It is easy to forget, but the impression which the condition of our country in March, 1921, made upon the people was so vivid, so alarming, that it will not soon pass away. . . . We were still technically in a state of war. We had no diplomatic relations with Turkey, Greece, Russia, Colombia or Mexico; and the Far East was causing grave apprehensions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Candidate Coolidge | 8/25/1924 | See Source »

...thunderbolts which he dug up at her bidding from the soft earth under her cabbages, she fashioned him a sword and enchanted it with runes and bade him be off. So Alvaric set his face toward the Elfin Mountains, whose changeless peaks were the color of forget-me-nots, and in due time passed the frontier of twilight that bordered the fields men knew and was the rampart of Elfland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Faery Epic* | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

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