Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Empire can afford to provide material for the dastardly campaign of the Hearst organs or forget that the soldiers of the United States, of Great Britain and of Canada were comrades in arms in the Armageddon of the ages. If they could die together, surely we can live together in amity, in mutual respect, in common endeavor to make the world safer and happier for the generations of the future. "Wild tongues which have not Thee in awe" are the devil's advocates for the "lesser breeds without the law." In the British nations there is neither lust...
...trait for which Americans are wellknown is the rapidity with which they forget--even things which once stirred their emotions to the highest pitch. This trait is being exhibited today in a tragic way, by the people as a whole and by Congress in particular. Thousands of soldiers now lying in hospitals or waiting for training in the officers of the Vocational Board are being neglected while bills that aim to provide for their welfare gather dust in Congressional Committee Cubby-holes. The most recent and important of these is the Rogers Bill which would substitute one Bureau of Veteran...
...save the lives of children who will die unless we personally help them is so urgent that we feel that no matter how much each member of the Graduate Schools Society has already given, he will contribute again beyond the point of hardship to himself. Nor do we forget that here is the greatest opportunity possible for creating that confidence in the spirit of genuine good-will by which alone the world can be rescued from its dangerous condition...
Useless and undecorative memorials have recently spring up in such profusion throughout the country that when another one in mentioned, there is a great inclination to forget the whole matter with a shrug. In this age of brick and stone, a truly fitting memorial is a rarety...
...President of the Student Council has found it necessary to call attention in the existence at Harvard of book "hogs" in the librarian--the men who keep books for individual use while others are waiting, the men who take out books and "forget" to return them. It is preposterous to trial such men as irresponsible children--to threaten and plead with them. College men are intelligent enough to appreciate fair play, to understand, at least, the reason for the few, simple rules made by the libraries. "Hogging" a book for individual use cannot be excused as carelessness; it is pure...