Word: oblivion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours later, a full hour after the Tiger had found oblivion in total stupor. Death came. Correspondents quarreled and kept on quarreling over whether Mme. Jacquemaire and Sister Theoneste were present at the end. They were not present when Clemenceau of France lost consciousness...
...possibly the captain of that sport, who is to give the idea of student coaching a workout this season. If the basketball teams from the Amherst college had been engaged in rolling up records for consecutive losses, this decision might be condoned as a last desperate measure before the oblivion of a dropped sport; but M. A. C. has had teams that could not even be dismissed with the epithet of faint praise "good small college outfits...
...last week was relatively one of the world's great commercial disasters. It was the first bad one on a U. S. Trans- continental air line. The great trimotored Ford with five passengers and crew of three flew west from Albuquerque, N. Mex., into an electrical storm and oblivion...
...took White Rock up with the General Land Office in Washington. U. S. officials had never heard of it, refused to believe its existence until it had been officially surveyed and "claimed" by the U.S. Having rescued the island from geographic oblivion, Mrs. Morton was more determined than ever to possess it. She asked the Land Office to sell it. But the U. S. does not sell such public domain...
...relief the garb of contemporary Seniors. The gowns of the past are still, evidently, purchased; some moved, sparse sombre dots, in the early hours of the first week of May; they massed together before Widener in one grand display for the benefit of Notman's and the Album: then--oblivion. The almost-alumnus is no more to be distinguished from the rest of Harvard than is the sweaterless and letterless athlete...