Word: oblivion
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...Oblivion. "There must be what Mr. Gladstone called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past...
...United Nations Health Assembly meeting in New York delegates unanimously approved a psychological attack on the world's ills through "mental armament." Children, said Canada's Deputy Health Minister George Brock Chisholm, must be taught to live harmoniously together or mankind will follow the dinosaur into oblivion...
...reckless British reviewer once observed in print that the Sitwells were "literary curiosities . . . whose energy and self-assurance pushed them into a position which their merits could not have won. . . . Oblivion has claimed them and they are remembered with kindly, if slightly cynical, smiles." The Sitwells promptly sued for libel, were awarded damages of ?350 each (TIME, March...
...rather few illustrations, but when it was revived as a twice-weekly 20 years, later, improved photographic techniques had made it popular enough to be a successful advertising medium--as long as the Booming Twenties boomed. It came in for another brief flourish in 1940, but quickly returned to oblivion...
Budget for Oblivion. In Seattle, Sailor Oluf Lystad, found dead in a gas-filled room, left...