Word: overlook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question is often discussed nowadays, and though the fact is generally accepted, there seems to be common agreement to overlook one of the principal causes for it. It is really no wonder that many people have come to think a college is nothing but a training school for safety-pin kings and toothpick magnates. Millions of broadsides are sent through the mails every year by dispensers of capsule libraries and vest-pocket universities filling people's heads with deadly statistics. One lure to success by the read-five-minutes-a-day method has this convincing argument...
...criterion of worth, the secretary of a big navy should be a bigger man than the secretary of a small navy. Can it be that Mr. Wilbur is haunted by dreams of greatness? If so, human frailty can pardon him his desire; but human reason cannot overlook his obtuseness in yielding to it when peace demands, net larger, but smaller navies, when public economy urges, not increased, but diminished expenditure...
...left out rhythm, and he amended his definition to include it. But Signor Croce stands upon his knife-edge distinction, and is not at all daunted by the necessity of calling de Maupassant a poet. The practical value of his theory is very doubtful. If one could overlook all but the simplest facts, as Signor Croce has done, that would certainly make matters much easier, but it would hardly solve complexities...
...Harvard features. A quarterback who is not called upon to submit to the bumps and spills which come to those who carry the ball will continue cool and clearheaded throughout a full game; a semi-standing line relying on the use of its hands is in a position to overlook the enemy line, size up, the play and move towards the point of attack; waiting ends are seldom boxed and are in a position to intercept those always dangerous semi-lateral passes toward the sidelines...
...think it no less important to know the history of the great heritage that is ours than to be acquainted with the latest decisions and to such these volumes will be a source of interest, pleasure and profit, and no student of political or economic conditions can afford to overlook this source of information...