Word: oblivion
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...called importantly at the presidential palace of Gen. Machado. His remarks were terse and to the point. Now that the experiment had failed, he declared, let there be no thought of repeating it. And let all traces of the disaster be expunged. Let Sugar Export Co. pass quietly into oblivion...
...Jones Law are slowly fading into groans of despair as the repeal of the "Meanings" clause of the book censorship code daily nears realization. That good old institution whereby the youth of Boston has been preserved from the contaminating influence of modern literature is tottering on the edge of oblivion. The virgin purity of the children that so blithly play about the Frog Pond is now laid open to the nefarious advances of "unfit" literature...
Junius begat "J. P." Dry goods receded into oblivion and the House of Morgan had its Louis XIV. Perhaps prosaic Americans never quite realized that in gigantic, predatory J. P. Morgan I they had an authentic Emperor of Railways and Commerce, a sovereign whose technically free serfs were trainmen, and who levied legal tribute on the public. Italians, quicker to perceive such romantic truths, commonly referred to Morgan in his latter years as Il Magnifico. The numberless art treasures which he carried off from Italy-by no better right than his irresistible power to pay any price-doubtless clinched...
...grubbing for food and housing, devotion to the fine ideal of disciplining the human intellect and human will." One might add that the courage was largely Dunster's, and in devotion no one was his equal. Harvard College might even have followed its founder to an early death and oblivion, but for the lively faith, the serene courage, and the steadfast devotion of Henry Dunster...
...years the pictures generally stay there. Thousands see them, thousands talk about them, the pundits study them. Only the work of genius can survive this bitter ordeal by familiarity. At length the enduring works are borne with punditical hosannas to the Louvre. The rest descend in devious channels to oblivion...