Word: omits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After a full hearing before the board of directors on charges that the Philadelphia Record had been guilty of irregularities in circulation records, the Board voted to omit the audit for the twelve months ending Sept. 30, 1927, to recall the publishers' statement for the six months ending March 31, 1928, and to place the Record under suspension of service until Sept. 30, 1928, when an audit for six months ending with that date will be attempted...
Like any other politician, Candidate Foster was careful to omit none of his party's time-tested cliches. Another "tool of the Capitalists," he said, was Democrat Smith. The Workers party, he explained, was part of the Communist International. It was a revolutionary party. Its aim was to overthrow the capitalist order in the U. S. Capitalism bred war. Capitalism would involve the U. S. in the "next...
This is a strangely old-fashioned situation for so strikingly modern an analysis of emotions. No realistic detail is omitted. Her refusal to omit from any given sentence any possible detail has indeed made Author Newman's style more or less famous (The Hard-boiled Virgin). Hardly a sentence but begins with a while or a when or a since, and balances itself to lengthy conclusion. Literary critic of some merit (The Short Story's Mutations), she undoubtedly knows better, so the diagnosis is reduced to that of affectation...
...Pierpont Morgan, a godly man as well as a wealthy one, offered to bear the expense of issuing a new Standard Book of Common Prayer, to be presented to the 49th Episcopal convention, next October, in Washington, D. C. The revised prayer manual will omit the word obey from the marriage ceremony and it will contain a shortened form of the ten commandments. In other respects, except for perfection of minute typographical failures as far as is now known, it will conform to the revised Episcopal prayer manual which Mr. Morgan's father paid for in 1892, and which...
...each human was knocked down, all present were called to witness that he or she had agreed to labor for one or more years in return for the sum bid, plus board & keep and one new set of outer garments. Since French peasants omit day underwear and often night garments as well, the wage scale of auction bidding was deemed adequate...