Word: omit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME is very interesting, it is so concise and up to the minute, but it seems to me someone on your "staff" is entirely lacking in foresight when they omit a section on Fashion...
While waiting for this to happen no gentleman will omit a few modest, customary intimations that the number of birds which he slew last year on such-and-such a moor was really colossal...
...large, and his popularity with the students or perhaps, his reserve. His campus hick name, his mannerisms, his students form the mainstay of the biographical portions of the narrative. Nevertheless, in speaking of Eliot, of Wendell of Charles Eliot Norton and of others like these, it was impossible to omit all reference to their educational tenets to refrain from mentioning the main features of their best known theories and methods...
TIME prints letters just as they are received, does not "doctor" them (except to omit those portions which are irrelevant, prolix), does not respell them. The sincerity of Farmer Crane's letter spoke for itself-spoke far more eloquently than could fine phrases, fancy spellings...
...tried to gather and to express the formative influences, the circumstances and the results of all that has gone to make up American civilization for three hundred years. There is no preface that explains that the author is very sorry that the limits of his study force him to omit all but the diplomatic history of the period; nor is there any method used in the writing of the book other than that of judicious selection. The economic flavor of Professor Beard's former works, that economic bias which has done so much to discredit what its pedantic opponents have...