Word: overlook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great numbers. In the Carboniferous period and before, when the earth's coal and oil deposits were formed, there prospered a hard-shelled order of protozoa, the Foraminifera, which were sometimes two inches but usually less than a millimeter across. Micropaleontologists watch for these and do not overlook the fragmentary remains of such creatures as worms, starfish, sea urchins, etc. When oilmen strike a wildcat gusher, they sometimes spend from $1,000 to $2,500 for an analysis of the microfossils which characterize it, so that finding another such well will depend less on luck...
Norway. Blaming British broadcasts for "increasing instances of impudence and provocative behavior to uniformed and civilian Germans," Nazi Police Chief Lieut. General Wilhelm Redeiss confessed that "one cannot overlook the fact that they are gaining supporters for their anti-German plans...
...letters do the work of 42 are pitiable. We write the same vowel twice to give it a different sound. . . . We also double the following consonant ... or make two consonants represent simple sounds . . . for which the Latin alphabet does not provide. . . . Those who think this a satisfactory solution overlook the stupendous fact that it takes twice as long to write two letters as to write...
...civil war; 5) a survey of the events and policies that led to World War II; 6) a thorough study of the fall of France; 7) an outline of world diplomacy since World War I; 8) a guide to the ways & means by which statesmen make politics. The publishers overlook the most important point-Men and Politics is the Out of the Night of the intelligentsia. Without going in for revelations, Fischer's book reveals the extent of the intellectual and physical commutation between the U.S. and Moscow, the fondness of the ties between the Soviet Government...
Caldwell declared the project was "an effort frankly to face a question this nation no longer can allow itself to overlook...