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Word: oblivion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Louis Verneuil's Broadway success has finally left the big town and started on the road to oblivion. It is easy to see why it was a long-run success but never a smash...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: Affairs of State | 3/12/1952 | See Source »

...since its formation, the Harvard Young Progressive Club has fallen afoul of two minor College regulations. These rules, requiring each undergraduate organization to have two faculty or alumni advisers and to submit membership lists to University Hall, have kept the YPs perpetually teetering on the line between recognition and oblivion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Status of Advice | 3/5/1952 | See Source »

...most brilliant campaigns of modern times. Not long afterward, Napoleon was sent packing for good. General Wellesley got his dukedom and his niche in history. The rank & file, according to a custom old when Joshua fought the battle of Jericho, got their prize money-and a muster into oblivion. Yet destiny for once had preserved a rich archive of the forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Soldier's Letters | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

Moreover, since the networks cannot televise or broadcast the full proceedings of any committee, committee members have had to chose what portions of their inquiries the public could see and hear. This has usually meant full play for dramatic accusations and oblivion for the more lackluster denials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Invidious Blackout | 3/1/1952 | See Source »

...Truman suggested such an ambassador in the first place. There is no indication whether the appointment issue originated in the State Department or whether it is purely a political move. Whatever the President's reasons were, we hope he will let the question continue on its present course to oblivion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fadeout | 1/19/1952 | See Source »

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