Word: forgottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hetty Green, the late unique creative financier among women, had forgotten that she had bought a railroad during the great panic of 1893. The Texas Midland, 125 miles long, had completely slipped her mind. She found it one day when she had nothing better to do than paw over some dusty old papers. She sent her son, Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green, to Terrell, Tex., headquarters of the road, to ascertain its value. It was a long sort, of job, as the Interstate Commerce Commission learned later. The road did not pay. Colonel Green established himself at Terrell, became...
...George amendment passed. Power interests congratulated themselves. The Federal Trade Commission will almost certainly make no report before Election Day and after that the "power trust" will be forgotten...
...forgotten Dictator Theodore Pangalos? Less than two years ago he was master of Greece. Hard, cynical and perpetually sneering, he domineered. Then a coup d'état similar to that by which he had seized power upset him and he was clapped into jail (TIME...
...high spots of the 1927 Triangular meet are too recent to be entirely forgotten. Again the University was conceded the advantage and again Coach Farrell's men showed their heels to the challenging packs. The Crimson track team broke two meet records and took over half of the first places. It scored 54 1-4 points to Dartmouth and Cornell's 33 and 28 3-4. Outstanding performances abounded, for even when records were not humbled, the events brought forth competition close enough to bring the crowd to its feet time after time...
...Burk, when he was a boy in Philadelphia, was sensitive to the extraordinary past whose echoes were still in the country around him. He picked up an Indian battle axe one day and, like many another U. S. urchin, stared with a long wonder at this emblem of forgotten hatred and forgotten fear. After he became a parson, he could not lose his intense feeling for the past; when he told his Sunday school about Joshua, he could hear trumpets sounding and the roar of falling walls. His parish was in Norristown, Pa.; on winter nights he could imagine that...