Word: omit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were greatly surprised after having submitted this column to learn that Harvard had adopted somewhat the same policy as Bowser. Naturally, therefore, rather than cause any embarrassment to our alma mater, we hastened to Leo the Printer with instructions to omit-our article. We returned thinking as was well. You can imagine how surprised we are to find that Leo knifed...
...Louisville Times announced it had been forced to omit 74 columns of advertising in three days...
Where the malaria rate is very high, where deadly falciparum malaria prevails, or "where measures of control are difficult to enforce," Dr. Coggeshall recommends drugs. But in most situations he believes in screens and sprays, would actually omit drugs. Now being released to teach malaria and mosquito control in Latin America and the U.S. was Walt Disney's short, Winged Scourge, made under the direction of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Like Coggeshall, Disney comes out strongly for screens (see cuts...
...cellophane, and titled: Airplane Power (with special reference to engines and altitudes). With the booklet was a note from G.M.'s genial Customer Research Director Henry Weaver: "After a long series of controversial sessions with our different engineering groups, aviation experts and military censors, we finally decided ... to omit everything on which the experts are not in full and complete agreement. The enclosed is the result...
These and a sprinkling of smaller photos of movie stars are all there is to the idea that the morals of the paper are weak; if you omit the private collection in the photo room. Even the interview with Gypsy Rose Lee was nothing a family tabloid would refuse to print...