Word: overlook
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been different. They were blindly led into this rushing game by finding the Harvard line unreliable during the first few minutes of play. The ball was quickly advanced to the 30 yard line and there Harvard held for downs. Overconfidence in her backs alone could have caused Dartmouth to overlook the advisability of punting at such a critical time...
...first must be sought the Kindom of God, the vision given to Christ of an ideal society. The fundamental evil of society today is the alienation of two parts. Men overlook the supreme good in their zeal for material success. The note of greatness is absent from our progress, and the organizing power of moral impulse is gone. That we are better than people of a century ago we owe to our fathers, who have left us a goodly heritage of sturdy virtues, and this it is our duty to transmit to our descendants with increased worth...
Writers who have been led by the solidity of the earlier Doric forms to deny their derivation from a wooden technic, overlook the fact that these oldest buildings were by no means constructed wholly of wood, their walls and roof being largely made of clay, a material which required great compactness. Professor Doerpfeld then showed how these ancient, close-built temples, when transferred into stone, became even more solid and heavy; whereas later they assumed slenderer forms and more graceful proportions...
Professor Dorpfeld, by means of a vertical section of the hill, which showed the different strata one above the other, made it very clear how Schliemann came to overlook the upper citadel...
...desire, nevertheless, to indicate two additional refutations to his general charge of severity; two so palpable that I had hoped he would not overlook them. First, that, however rigid or lax any system of marking may be, two different instructors can not, in the very nature of things, mark the same kind of work in the same way; we can not eliminate from them that excellent peculiarity called "the personal equation." Second, that the twelve o'clock section of English C (of which I am a member) is less in earnest than Professor Baker's sections; the reason being because...