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Word: oblivion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will be a parade to the field behind a band, and the Dartmouth game will be played to the accompaniment of a cheering section of pre-war volume. With adequate outside support, the prime essential hitherto lacking this year, the minor problems of the ball team will fade into oblivion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AGAIN THE FAULT LIES IN OURSELVES. | 5/7/1919 | See Source »

...utilize its buildings, in the expectation of assisting in the successful prosecution of the war, but it is sorry that this city has been the butt of governmental inefficiency. Doubtless the school has done much good, but we are as glad to see the blue horde passing into oblivion, as they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS. | 4/16/1919 | See Source »

...lassitude. The expression "contains as much moral poison as a two-word phrase can hold", and it aims to dull the conscience into accepting the kind of listless existence it signifies. The man who says he is "getting by" is merely drifting with the current into the sea of oblivion. When the fighting spirit of races as well as of individuals runs low rapid degeneration inevitably follows. And when high resolve and constant initiative relax their powers, then the loser is morally poor indeed; for he has dropped out of the race in life and but impedes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "GETTING BY." | 1/30/1919 | See Source »

...Prosser speaks truly; it is getting warm and we have other things to do. So, with the fawning reverence of an English commoner, we bow ourselves out of these columns into the impenetrable oblivion of classroom and study. C. S. JOSLYN...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Closing the Subject. | 4/4/1918 | See Source »

...consecutive days of rest and ease made us more and more in favor of the Fuel Board. Week-end parties were planned for months in advance,--a five-day schedule appeared too good to be true. It was, and our day-dreams of this new Utopia have faded into oblivion, for Monday is to continue as of yore: a day of "liaison" between a merry week-end and a dreadful week to come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MONDAY | 1/19/1918 | See Source »

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