Word: overlaid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...proclivities which one acquired spontaneously as a boy, outside of the schoolroom, and which one has more or less kept up or more or less neglected during the more exacting years of high-school and college, that those proclivities are still a part of oneself. They may be overlaid by the thoughts and habits instilled by the formal education, but they are there:--there as positive advantages if they can be revived and put to use in one's life profession, but, if they are not so utilized, then still there as a resource of restlessness, vague discontent, lack...
...many years it has been a matter of regret that Thanksgiving Day, instead of being a religious festival, suited to the harvest season, was deteriorating into an excuse for over-eating. The original significance of the day had been overlaid with football games to such an extent that the Pilgrim fathers would have had hard work to recognize...