Word: forgottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...round-faced, Irish nine-year-old chortled on first looking into McGuffey's Second Reader. His little eyes bulged, his pudgy hands curiously, gleefully smudged the pages. Now, at 61, Democratic Senatorial Candidate George E. Brennan told the Illinois electorate about it, "a story I've never forgotten. "A mother, leaving her children alone for a few minutes, warned them not to stuff beans into their ears or noses. They'd never heard of the trick before. The minute the mother was out of sight they ran for the bean jar. "Human nature doesn't change...
...fortnight, for the postman. But even when he came they turned away still worried, depressed, edgy. At last their parents spotted a paragraph in the newspapers: "Grading of College Applicants Delayed. . . ." Their tension remained, but the 11,000 at least understood that the College Entrance Examination Board had not forgotten them, that it was delayed in its terrible function of correcting the nervously scribbled "books" of 22,000 would-be matriculants to Vassar, Smith, Princeton, Yale, Wellesley, Harvard, etc., owing to the facts: that the scribbling was not finished until June 21; that the 700 teachers, who correct the papers...
...cotton growers were not forgotten by these 80 industrialists, only neglected. These were well aware that U. S. farmers cultivate 40,000,000 acres of cotton yearly, for a production of more than 14,000,000 bales yearly* (more than half of the whole world's balage), for a value of about $2,000,000,000. They knew too that last year's average cotton price was 24.8c a pound, that present prices average less than 18c a pound at U. S. cotton markets (Manhattan, New Orleans, Galveston, Mobile, Savannah, Norfolk, Augusta, Memphis, Houston, Little Rock, Dallas...
...even this gesture was forgotten in the flurry of electing directors. The 80 present chose 54 of their own number to direct. Of the 54 only one, C. R. Miller (C. R. Miller Mfg. Co.) was from Texas, the largest cotton-producing state in the country. He is from Dallas. Otherwise the industrialized southern states are represented in comfortable proportion to those of the North Atlantic. No one section gives the appearance of dominance...
...stunting effect of philosophical detachment upon young people's emotional equipment would be fearful to contemplate. They might never have the slightest desire to rush out to war for the motherland. They might reason so broadly about government that fine old political issues would become meaningless and forgotten, and states would perhaps fall into the hands of dreadfully efficient automatons like the ones Mr. Shaw and Mr. Wells put in their books, with no axes to grind, no slogans to shout and no fine frenzies to indulge...