Word: omit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anyone to name the daily newspapers published in English in Manhattan. It is an almost certain wager that he will omit one-the smallest one, the newest one, by far the most curious one. Yet any morning except Monday he may step up to the newsstand in the Hotel Pennsylvania, or to two others nearby, and exchange three pennies for a copy of the Repository ("An Independent Newspaper") which last week published its 120th issue...
...value of any sort of examinations except finals has been seriously questioned by many educators. Yale, in its recently announced plan, will omit even midyears, and hold three reading periods at different times during the college year. At the opposite extreme stand those courses demanding weekly or biweekly tests, and sometimes even section meetings during a reading period. Both plans have advantages, but those of the freer course are more desirable...
President Lowell of Harvard University, who sometimes seems very close to the stern, unbending Puritan of tradition, has yielded one step to the protest of Harvard graduates and undergraduates against the intention to omit from the new Harvard Memorial Chapel any mention of the three Harvard graduates who died fighting in the German armies. The chapel will be a monument to the men who gave their lives in the Allied cause, but there will be room in it for a tablet to the three Germans, all of whom, as it happens, died before the United States entered the World...
...omit the name of Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the U. S., who was born at Hillsborough...
...interpreting news. My judgment is that your subscribers belong to a class of fairly intelligent people, as competent to interpret facts as you. Personally, I wish you might stay what you claimed to be when I first received your advertising matter: a newsmagazine.∙ I should prefer that you omit the colorings of your own prejudices...