Word: omit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girls who are trying to be "sharp" are notably similarly wearisome in limiting expression to a repetition of current pat phrases ... It would have been thoroughly in keeping if Jane had prefaced her predication with "Let's face it." It's surprising that a modern girl would omit that devastating, penetrating philosophy. Also, a modern girl could have well been expected to comment: "He's a Smart Cookie...
...play ball with the decadent French nation, which is eroded by Communism, De Gaullism, money-bagism, and political frustration? Apparently it will not . . . face up to the necessities of unity, discipline and responsibility . . . Let's have the "agonizing reappraisal" and shape a policy of action that will omit France from any plans as a key factor for defense of the free world...
...through so many irrelevant topics, that talk of a Christmas recess is hardly unwarranted. At the rate hearings have progressed so far, public interest will surely ebb long before they are finished. Moreover, the television networks, which have taken terrific losses in return for their extensive coverage, will probably omit portions of the inquiry...
...Faculty also voted to allow entrants, when "their superior achievement in secondary school is considered to have contributed significantly to the objectives of the General Education program," to omit one or two elementary GE courses and meet the requirements with additional upper level courses. Permission to omit these courses will be denied or granted under regulations formulated by the Special Standing Committee and the Committee on General Education. Under the same procedure, men will be excused from Gen Ed Ahf they show superior ability in English composition, "in appropriate achievement tests or by other prescribed means...
...provision of the Advanced Standing Plan, as proposed for Harvard, would allow concentrators to omit a maximum of two courses from their total academic load to free them for research work or general study...