Word: oblivion
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...grubbing process is not made easier by the professor in charge. An excellent scholar himself, he can wander on and on in total oblivion, which is shared by most of the people in the room...
...SCENTED remark as TO the good men of CAMBRIDGE being the worst dressed ON ANY CAMPUS FALLS into self-imposed OBLIVION when the old SAW ABOUT there being NO CAMPUS but a YARD is dusted off and LED FORTH...
...past and sees all his ancestors laughing at that joke. And he doubles up with the pain of the cumulative sorrow. "Why must", the words ring in the somber chambers of his brain, "why must a professor tell the same story for thirty years, a hundred years?" Titters in oblivion! And four out of five...
...discovered Friday afternoon in the steard pipe ditch being constructed near University Hall. More than a bushed of broken 'ups, plates, and bowls were taken out of this mine of ancient University plate accidentaly unearthed by the operations of a steam shoved. The plate having been rescued from eternal oblivion by the enthusiastic and opportune intervention of President Lowell has been carefully scrutinized by Assistant Professor K. J. Conant, of the department of Fine Arts, in conjunction with President Lowell, and an estimate of its real age has placed it somewhere in the forties or fifties of the last century...
...runs along on astonishingly familiar terms with the terrors of the Siamese jungle. It photographs elephants from under their feet, "shoots" tigers almost in their jaws, films a family of bears at play, leopards on the hunt, snakes in death struggles, monkeys a clowning, elephants nudging a village into oblivion. Dramatically, it is an account of the family of one Kru, of Siam, how he preserves his life and propagates his kind in the face of hostile nature. When wild beasts take to marauding, he takes to hunting. Both his cunning and their savagery are depicted with such clarity, plausibility...