Word: omit
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Prayer Book. The Bishops of the Church of England attempted to preserve this latitudinarianism and at the same time to create some authority for parochial idiosyncracies. Thus they arranged for an alternative marriage service in which they might omit the word "obey." And they provided for the "reservation of the Host," already practiced by some priests. "Reservation of the Host" means that the wafer consecrated at a mass preserves its sanctity, can be set aside (reserved) and carried to those unable to attend church services...
Last week I was all set to scold you for omitting some very good news from your last edition. In the first place you made no reference to "Guts" Thompson, Chicago's bookish mayor. I was even going to suggest that you run his picture on the front cover, but I was too late. The second piece of news omit ted was about Ruth Elder and her escapades...
Sirs : Did you not, in your account of the Schwartzbard trial, [TIME, Nov. 7] omit one very important statement - namely, that the defendant fought valiantly in the French army during the World War, that he was awarded the Croix de Guerre? Petlura, a Russian, turned against his own people, assisted the enemy. Schwartzbard, a Russian, fought bravely against his country...
...quotation prefixed to it but it has also a whole separate section of notes and a very full bibliography. It has managed, however, to escape the customary heavy historical style and reads suspiciously like a historical novel rather than a genuine history. And Mr. Lamb has seen fit to omit substantiating footnotes...
Plain Language. First Assistant Postmaster General John H. Bartlett, who last month instructed postmasters to omit departmental slang* from their reports and to use "every day" language instead (TIME, Oct. 31), last week issued a statement to his subordinates urging them to see that letters stamped for special delivery should really be specially delivered. He pointed out that the Special Delivery stamp is a contract between the mailer and the U. S. He invited public criticism of the special delivery service in future. Quite as notable as the frankness of the statement, which implicitly admitted a shortcoming of the Department...