Word: omit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fashions; . . . neither shall it be Lawfull for any to weare Long Hair Locks or foretopps nor to use curling, crissing, parting, or powdering their Haire." The College authorities, though they might have been tempted by the crew hair cut to a modern corollary of this law, saw fit to omit the mention of any such regulation in the Parietal Rules of 1936! But it is our purpose to discuss, in the light of past experiences and future experiments, some of Harvard's more serious recent changes...
...France at any price, Spaniards haughtily consider the tourist a fool for not staying at home. Greatest Spanish feat along this line was to build at stupendous cost in the days of King Alfonso XIII the finest network of concrete roads outside the U. S. and then omit to spend the few additional millions on advertising which would have made them teem with tourist cars. His Majesty personally did more to encourage tourists than has any other King or Emperor, would stop and shake hands with American Express Co. groups of 200 and more...
When at the Olympic games opening (see p. 40) Adolf Hitler and Colonel Lindbergh were seated within a few feet of one another and the Reichsführer ignored the airman, it was clear that Hitler intended to be the first Head-of-State to omit to receive Charles Augustus Lindbergh. The next day Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh flew to Denmark...
...June 8 issue of TIME, in your article on the Texas Centennial, in giving credit to the men responsible for the Texas Centennial you either purposely omit the name of one of the most outstanding men so vitally responsible for the Texas Centennial or does the Editor of TIME justly intend devoting a full article in TIME'S next issue to this man who deserves so much credit for his accomplishments? I refer to Mr. Fred F. (for Farrel) Florence, president of the Texas Centennial. Mr. Florence, president of the Republic National Bank & Trust...
...reference to the column Milestones, TIME, Feb. 24, I was indeed surprised to find your account so brief as to omit all mention of one of Hiram Percy Maxim's greatest interests: Amateur Radio. Himself the holder of an amateur "ticket" [license], he was the esteemed president of the Amateur's foremost protective interest, the American Radio Relay League. In the hearts of Hams [operators] will he be remembered longest and best...