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Word: omits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even the most prosperous company. In the 19th Century the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. (dating back to 1839 when it was comprised only of swift sailing vessels bearing mail over the South American and West Indies routes) was rich and powerful. But by 1902 it was forced to omit its dividend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sinking Sea Lord | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...harangues of the two leaders took the greater part of a whole day. The next day Field Marshal Simmons, finding that he had turned two pages of his speech together (by accident), brought out the lost page and read it to his eager followers. Then, not to omit any element of a proper epic, Chief of Staff Pat Harrison leapt upon the Democratic parapet and reviled the leaders of the enemy. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Battle Breaks | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Better omit foreign words from TIME unless you get them correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...omit this purposely because, like many of your readers, you were tired of seeing editorials moralizing on the lynching of Negroes by the whites down South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...H.Y.P debates were omitted this year for two reasons. In the first place the triangle was not included, as in former years, on the League schedule, but Brown and Wesleyan were substituted instead. In the second place, the Chairman of the Princeton Speaker's Union, who had charge of the arrangements for this year (not Harvard), informed us that he had written Yale and that they were "not interested" in holding the debate, presumably because it was not included on the League schedule and would have meant extra preparation and expense. Moreover he said that the debate could...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debated Points | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

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