Word: omitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overflow audience, he spoke to a comfortably filled house. He committed the fatal dramatic error of allowing his audience to stare at him for two hours while preliminary speakers exhausted them and he himself grew more nervous by the minute. When his time finally came he was obliged to omit all but a fraction of his prepared address. He offered no program of organization...
Like most modern satirists, Artist Citron is shrewd enough not to omit herself. A picture of a broad-beamed young woman sprawled on a stool and scowling at a drawing board is supposed to be a self-portrait. Minna Citron is actually much better looking. She was born Minna Wright of Newark, N. J. Henry Citron, to whom she has been married 18 years, is a Brooklyn paper box manufacturer...
...angle, stand Massachusetts and California which help a bastard out by not requiring a statement of his illegitimacy on his birth certificate. When he signs up for college, applies for a job or supplies a statement for Who's Who, he can omit parental names and pretend that he has made a decision to go on record as the founder of a family without ancestors...
Your advertisement a swell piece of advertising, but why did you omit your address from...
There are already some instances of a development along these lines at Harvard. Several men have been permitted to omit History 1 by the History Department so that they could take advanced courses. English 28 and 79 are not always required before one takes courses in this field. French 6 instead of French 2, may serve as a start for French. This is only a beginning, however. There is need for a definite plan by the Committee on Electives, which will make it the usual thing for the good student to enter advanced courses immediately. While the difficulties are numerous...