Word: oblivion
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...their admirers follow every action blissfully indifferent to the fact that in another twenty-five years few will care or remember where the immortal Whoozis caught that pass or how many tackles the great Whats-isname made in the 1923 game. Even the Stadium itself may have passed into oblivion obscured by some new structure which dwarfs the present one. But for undergraduates of today there is no game in all past history which can compare with the one in the little stadium across the river, and games and stadiums of the future may care for themselves and wait their...
...joining of this country in the International Hague Tribunal, the threat of loading a bonus bill upon the shoulders of the country, to mention but three. Unless these can be lived down within a year, the American people may once more condemn the Grand Old Party to temporary oblivion...
...greatest danger confronting our colleges is that of being "drawn into the common life." But the prophets and apostles of the Ku Klux Klan propose to draw them in with a vengeance. Princeton is the latest to be told that she cannot remain "in her own little eddy of oblivion while the rising tide of the greatest moral and political movement sweeps by". This particular champion of the Klan, being a lady as well as a "bishop," is naturally strong on sweeping. She points to what she believes to be the evidence that the Klan is about to sweep through...
...these principles held in the light of a sort of rule-of-thumb panacea, to be applied indiscriminately and with the joy of recent discovery; but rather as the proven standards of better men and better ages which we have for the time being allowed to lapse into oblivion...
Oddly enough, D. H. Lawrence, enbeavered idol of the ultra moderns, leads all the rest in the race for oblivion. His name appears on five lists, while no other candidates, except Henry James (three) and Paul Claudel (three), have more than two supporters...