Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days before the Diaspora (the dispersal from Palestine), the Jews were a dancing people. As they wandered over the face of the earth they took up the dances of other nations, forgot their own. But one small group of about 3,000 Jews did not forget: the Yemenite Jews* who, driven from Jerusalem by the Roman conquerors in 132 A. D., settled in a corner of southwestern Arabia, where they have carried the traditions of Old Testament life down to the present...
...astonishing secret he had guarded closely for three years. In 1935, he said, he castrated several male mice and planted ovaries in their transparent ears. He wanted to observe the activity of the borrowed organs but nothing happened. Disappointed, he went off on a three months' vacation, forgot all about the mice. When he returned he discovered that they had regained their sex. Although they were not fertile they were again "complete males in temperament...
Reporting an hour early for his first day's work* as a stock boy in the basement of William Filene's Sons department store in Boston, John Aspinwall Roosevelt entered by the wrong door, drew the wrong time slip, forgot to throw away his cigaret. Said he: "I'm really serious about this job. The sooner everybody forgets I'm my father's son, the better it will be for me. ... It sure is interesting...
...Roosevelt evidently forgot that in Maryland, and most other States, it is legally impossible at this late date for registered Republicans to vote in Democratic primaries...
June, the month of romance and graduations, is also "LETTER WRITING MONTH". . . . Should old acquaintance be forgot . . . loved ones be left to wait and wonder-all because you neglected to write a letter? Somewhere someone is waiting for your letter-waiting to say "I love you too" or "Yes, we have a job for you." Write a letter. . . . It's a habit well worth cultivating, for every letter that you write, is "Very truly yours...