Word: oblivion
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...again be a time when the stands are audibly antagonistic, when the teams become central elements in a turmoil of tea cup war. Such phenomena are intrinsic parts of all that the college of today and of the future must attempt with all its power to drive into permanent oblivion...
...Oblivion...
...will oblivion's bitter cup be soon prepared for her. Having brooded over two generations, mostly girls, as Duty's very priestess, she was approached last winter by exceedingly ironic Biographer Thomas Beer. In The Mauve Decade he tore aside her veils of sentiment and revealed a harried housekeeper with bone-aches and a lounging father, most scornfully scribbling out what she herself called "moral pap for the young," to make ends meet. He showed that she herself read the racy French and Russian novels of her day; that she was gaunt, dowdy, with a deep tinge...
...probably few in the University who realize that the pleasant and often inspiring custom of a short organ recital at the close of Sunday chapel has lately been neglected. Yet those few are very sincere in their belief that something excellent and fine has been allowed to fade into oblivion...
...coolie garb. Though these captured commanders may well have expected that their heads would soon adorn two sharpened poles, they were merely imprisoned. As a mark of special consideration General Liu was supplied by his captors with opium to which he is addicted. Complacent, he dozed into sweet oblivion, careless of possible assassins...