Word: forgottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have sufficiently demonstrated the advantages of the branch system. It universities can have the strong trunk of efficient administration and authoritative lecturers, and still diversity their branches with unit colleges of different types, such as Yale promises and Columbia provides, the fear of Ford factory scholasticism may well be forgotten...
...haired matron of considerable bearing, resigned her post as Dean of the College of Home Economics at Syracuse University "until such time as my good name is cleared before the world." The Albany district attorney decided that the Governor's investigator's findings should be waived, dropped, forgotten. The findings, which he called "fantastic," charged that Mrs. Knapp, in administering a $1,200,000 census fund, had given sinecures to her relatives, forged endorsements on checks, falsified her expense accounts, obtained false certifications from a notary public, mishandled some...
...loss of Coolidge. On the other hand, the spectacle of our leader joining in on the greatest enterprise of the age (Conquering the Air) would exalt this country far more than anything else Mr. Coolidge could do. If he died, he would die a real hero and never be forgotten...
...sort of thing that is bound to happen every so often south of the Potomac, where old hearts still harbor a bitterness elsewhere forgotten. The incident summarily dealt with by the Speaker would have attracted small notice but for one factor: among the contributors to the pamphlet was Lyon Gardiner Tyler. Onetime (1888-1919) President, now President Emeritus, of William and Mary College, Dr. Tyler is a son of John Tyler. John Tyler was tenth President of the U. S. Since the death of Robert Todd Lincoln (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926), Dr. Tyler is the oldest living...
...fortnight, in an effort to obtain a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. In Amsterdam the buzz of tickers ceased to have meaning, last week, for Mevrouw Van Eeghen. Removed to a hospital, she lay at first unconscious, and later sphinxlike by advice of her attorneys. Her husband, forgotten by the press, had been a rich, respected rubber merchant of the firm of Matthes & Bormeester...