Word: overlook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other 'moderate international associationists', lack any strong foundation for their unwillingness to cooperate with the League as it is now constituted. The former faction, basing their stand on the words of Washington, confuse the meaning underlying his statements, while the latter group, favoring some sort of international organization, overlook in their plans for a new association, the difficulty of inducing the 52 members of the present League to agree with their ideas...
...have a European policy we must henceforth take account of Russia" declares the semi-official French paper, Le Temps, swallowing all of its Russian editorials for the last five years. When in need of a friend, the French can forget, or at least overlook, much. That Czarists' debts were disregarded and France deserted in the war are not subjects to be mentioned when fear of Germany is dominant. Any move to strengthen "the national position" will be acceptable to the French. Especially the business interests are clamoring for complete reconciliation, arguing that trade relations are essential...
...must not overlook the poets. The author of the "Ode On the Intimations", etc.--what did he read in his off moments for inspiration? Alas, we guessed wrong. Wordsworth's own name is neatly penned on the title page of "Memoirs of the Most Material Transactions in England for the Last Hundred Years." We could expect C. Lamb, who was a poet after all, to read Euripides, and Milton is always Milton except when he writes in the guest book of an Italian nobleman: "if virtue feebly were, etc., Joannes Miltonius...
...proposes to drive upper class men under the Freshman yoke of compulsion. But the old ideal of "mens sana in corpore sano" is one which a certain proportion of students will always overlook. Time is limited; the man for whom exercise is now particular pleasure does not always find it easy break into the afternoon for a game of tennis or squash or a row on the river; often, too, it is difficult to find partners or facilities. The temptation of the easiest way is to let exercise slip, or to put up with the old-man's expedient...
Russia, of course, strongly favors the conference. She has nothing to lose, and may gain something. Lenin has expressed a desire to go to Genoa and meet Lloyd George "face to face". It would appear that these gentlemen have forgotten the lesson of the Paris Conference, and overlook the success achieved (barring the U. S. Senate) by the Arms Conference, by having delegates from governments and not chiefs of governments represent the various nations...