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...coordinated or assembled and never intended for publication in such schematic form or under such a title. Stripping the notes of Elisabeth's gratuitously added chapter headings and subtitles, he lists them as they were written, along with thousands of other jottings that Elisabeth saw fit to omit because they did not suit her distorting purpose...
...deference to the view of Harry Truman that the Missouri Waltz is "as bad as The Star-Spangled Banner so far as music is concerned," the Democratic National Committee will omit the Waltz from the program of a fund-raising banquet that Truman is to attend in Washington this week...
Financier Leopold D. Silberstein, who won only an active ulcer in his attempt to take over Fairbanks, Morse & Co. last May, bad reason for more pain. To help pay off the huge debts contracted in the proxy fight, his Penn-Texas Corp. last week was forced to 1) omit a quarterly dividend on preferred stock, 2) sell a major subsidiary, Industrial Brownhoist Corp. of Bay City, Mich., one of the first companies in the Silberstein empire. An undisclosed buyer picked it up for $3,000,000 in cash-half of what Penn-Texas paid for it in 1954. Other subsidiaries...
Conceded that Germany is industrious, you omit as causes of West Germany's prosperity that during the war years it fattened itself by looting Europe and that at present it pays negligible, if any, taxes for armaments...
...time for" is wrong, I would venture a more modest statement: even regarding "got" as perfectly correct and respectable, consideration of the brevity of one's span of life inclines one to observe that most of us simply haven't (omit "got" please) time for such wasteful locutions. I'd rather be wrong than redundant...