Word: omit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brash suggestion. A year ago they wrote a kidding column proposing that the New Haven Railroad move the station from the heart of the downtown section by tunneling under State House Hill and re-routing the main-line railroad tracks. Wrote Doyle and Quinn: "We are forced to omit little details [because] our engineering consultant is sweating out a Red Sox fight in the American League and has no time for trifles." The "Doyle-Quinn" plan became a standing joke in Providence, but the New Haven thought such a plan no joke. Recently, the local Rotary Club was told that...
...Russian magazine Ogonek predicted that the Soviet flag will be raised on the moon within 50 years.) Von Braun admits that his writings have been deliberate attempts to arouse popular enthusiasm and warm the cold feet of timid military planners. In writing for the public, he has had to omit convincing details that would have made his plan sound much more practical. During the last few years, he says, behind the wall of military secrecy there has been great progress. He believes that the guided missile men have moved much closer to space than many of them think...
...sober moment, the student body voted in a "petit prohibition." No liquor may be consumed after 1 a.m., and the Sunday milk-punch parties have given way to discreet tippling between noon and 2 p.m. This year's Dartmouth weekend is shaping up as a good subject to omit in letters to sensitive parents...
...controversy was started by a resolution passed by the Student Council of CCNY, requesting that the State Education Department and the New York City Board of Examiners "omit the question of loyalty as a prerequisite for teaching...
...which she bolts a door with her maidenly ulna to give Charlie time to flee through a trapdoor. It is not for mere moral support to a prince in his hour of need that Scottish ladies' societies around the globe are named in honor of noble Flora. To omit her finest hour is to mock the mettle of Caledonian womenhood...